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Re: Recovering data from corrupt firewire disks

Hi Alastair,

A similar thing happened to me and it turned out that the disk driver had
become corrupt which prevented utility apps from accessing the drive.

I managed to recover the data by using Disk Copy 6.4 under OS 9 to make a
new "Image from Device" (I could not use OS X cause it would display the
spinning beach ball forever whenever the drive was connected) You have to
use version 6.4 of Disk Copy since 6.3.3 and earlier won't create device
images.

It created a .dmg file (or segmented .dmg files depending on drive size) and
I was able to copy all the data back from the image.

Cheers,
--
Ian Page
Support Analyst
Computing and Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Phone: (780) 492-9324
http://www.ualberta.ca/cns/

on 9/16/02 1:01 PM, Alastair Thorne at email@hidden wrote:

> Hi all
>
> This may be a bit off list but I don't know where else to ask ... The
> firewire lists doesn't seem to be the relevant place.
>
> I've had a firewire port "go bad" and its taken a number of external
> lacie firewire drives with it (SE2100s).
>
> Normally when a firewire drive goes bad I can recover with Disk Warrior
> or TechTool but not in this case.
>
> The drives appear (correctly identified) on the firewire bus in System
> Profiler but the Finder immediatley says the disk is not formatted and
> asks me to "eject" or "initilaize".
>
> If I eject the disk then the disk utils can't find it.
>
> I even tried force quitting finder to get around the 'eject or
> initialize' dilemma and then trying to scan for the volume in tech tool
> - no good either ...
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Is there any chance I will be able to scavenge any data from the drives
> if I do intialize them ... ??
>
> TIA
>
> Alastair
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Alastair Thorne
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> College of Fine Arts
> Jennings House, Ohio University,
> Athens, OH 45701
> (740) 593-0029
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