Recovering a failed (SSD) hard drive. Unknown partition type.

[linux guy]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:09 PM, fred smith
<fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
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Thanks for sharing that, Fred.  I just spent some time going through
the files that did copy and I can't see anything critical missing.
:HUGE, HUGE sigh of relief.  If the situation were worse, I'd be on
your suggestion like white on <white> rice.

Thanks for the reply.