| Hi there,
The following is a guide to what the problem COULD be, without having the device to diagnose you cannot take any of the following as gospel.
When the kernel crashed it is possible the file system was being updated, the crash prevented the completion of this update hence leaving incomplete data on the HDD, if a major area of the hard disk was being updated at the time it could explain your inability to access the data.
Disk Warrior is a great tool for diagnosing and repairing file system faults, however it can only deal with certain problems and is not intended for data recovery (although it often does recover lost data), it is more a system maintenance tool.
I would suggest downloading a trial version of Data Rescue X, the trial is free and you will be able to determine whether your data is recoverable before shelling out for the full software!
Hope this helps! |