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Re: OFF: Help With Drive Rescue...


  • Subject: Re: OFF: Help With Drive Rescue...
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:18:32 -0600

The best thing for you to do is to boot from Firewire and get whatever you
can off the disk.

Not to flog a dead horse but this is the best reason to have a separate
partition for your stuff.

-- Gnarlie


Entity Peter Bunn spoke thus:

>
> 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.
> --
> Addendum:  The subject drive is formatted HFS Standard... was last
> running OS 8.1.
> -----
>  _______________________________________________


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