New 20" iMac

There was a big surprise yesterday. We received a new 20" iMac and it is really great.

But as always there's something about Mac Os x that I don't like.

I imported 20,000 Photos from an external firewire disk into iPhoto. And the iMac could not respond to my request most of the time. Finder and everything else did not really react to anything. But it worked, albeit it took somewhat long and nothing crashed and you could move some things around and do some chores but it just was not nice.

I think a multitasking os should handle this better and give more priority to finder and interactive tasks.

On, no not again!!! I lost all my data.

This is my 3rd 2.5" USB external Disk that is dead!!!

First it was a 20GB, then a 160GB LaCie. And now my brand new Maxtor OneTouch 4 250GB has some sectors dead!! Oh, did I mention that I did not use my own method of syncing use to often and I copied only part of the new files to some disks which I for sure don't remember where they are.

Also, I copied what was left and for better control deleted on the half defect disc the files. Then after finishing everything on Sunday morning I formated the Maxtor disk...........WAIT....That's not my Maxtor, but this is the older IOMEGA disk..... it is formating now!!!!

So I stop and look at what I got and I got nothing, really. So what did I do? I just formated the IOMEGA and wanted to start from scratch.

Did it help?

Not really, my maxtor had some directories already deleted and since they were in the recycle bin at last I found with Recuva only files with names 349085904503.doc etc.


OK. Then I rebooted the computer and whooops!!! Maxtor is also gone!!!

Now I had to find a solution to get my partition back.


I used testdisk

and it could restore my disk. So I have no my disk and am going to try to retrieve lost files on that but the names and structures are gone.


That's about as stupid as I can do. It is almost as stupid as I cleaned the beamer and had to throw that one away.

Now I am going to try PC Inspector and Recuva and look what data I can restore!