Seeking help/advice on hard drive

[jorrill@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (jason david orrill)]

Okay guys...

I just bought a PowerMac, and wanted to install a bunch of fonts etc. 
from my GS hard drive onto my new machine--I was under the impression 
that I could just plug my drive into the mac & I could then just copy to 
my heart's content...unfortunately, not only did it _not_ work, but the 
mac (or maybe the CMS software I was using) somehow killed my hard 
drive.  I can't boot from it, and the SCSI driver on my 3.5" System Disk 
won't even recognize it. :(  

So--I have two questions.  First, am I going to have to reformat this 
thing from scratch, or is there any way to rescue data (that I'm sure is 
still on there somewhere)?  And if so, how do I go about doing that when 
none of my software even recognizes it?  (With the exception of my Apple 
High-Speed SCSI card utilities disk)  And no, I don't have a backup of 
the thing, for which I beat myself soundly last night.

In a related question, if I _do_ have to start from scratch, are there 
any suggestions as to how I might be able to set up my GS to work more 
easily with my Mac?  I'm especially considering networking the two 
together so that they can share files (fonts, gifs, text files, etc) and 
hardware (especially my printer)?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me...

Jason

jorrill@indiana.edu