OFF: Help With Drive Rescue...
OFF: Help With Drive Rescue...
- Subject: OFF: Help With Drive Rescue...
- From: Peter Bunn <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:11:40 -0500
OFF: Help With Drive Rescue...
I'm well aware that this topic isn't suited to this forum, and a
'redirect' or two (or more) would be welcome, but I'm hopeful the
collective experience and aggregated brain power available here may turn
up a solution.
The other day, quite suddenly, the internal drive (third party
replacement, low total hours) on my PowerBook 5300 began making abnormal
noises. I shut down promptly, rebooted from a 'rescue' drive, ran Disk
First Aid and found no problems. Yet when I tried to perform an
emergency backup, I got read/write (disk) errors on the files I most
wanted to save. Some files copied without complaint; others produced
only drive noise and error messages.
I bought and downloaded a copy of DiskWarrior on-line. When run, it
provided a complete preview and reported only trivial errors. Still, I
was unable to copy many files to the backup drive.
Note Again: Neither Disk First Aid nor DiskWarrior report unusual
errors. The internal drive still mounts, and the Finder displays files
and folders normally.
I've tried direct drags to target folders on the backup drive, tried
creating disk images from the original folders, and written scripts to
read / write certain files using Standard Additions only - no Finder or
other app involved. No luck.
It seems directory info can be reassembled, but the files themselves
cannot... they just can't be read.
I have not yet removed the drive... nor whacked it real hard.
The only remaining chance I (think) I have is finding a nearly identical
drive and substituting a working circuit board and drive heads for those
on mine. A long shot at best.
Any - and I do mean any - suggestions for rescuing the files are welcome.
Ironically, but for a mail DB and some other recent items, there's not
that much of value except two months worth of diligent housekeeping that
I'd postponed for too long... and last backed up as recently as 3/20/05.
Foof.
Thanks Much For All Replies...
Peter B.
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Addendum: The subject drive is formatted HFS Standard... was last
running OS 8.1.
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