Re: hard drive failure, suggestions?

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From: Allen Chang (allen_at_rescomp.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 16:02:36 PDT

I think one poster's experience last time suggests that you should take
the drive to recovery services right away if you want the data rescued.

Allen Chang
Network Security Coordinator
Residential Computing

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Nick Cai wrote:

> [first time poster, not certain which list to post to (Magnet or
> Micronet), so please excuse any duplication]
>
> Hi
>
> I have a 2nd generation iMac running OS 9.1 and the hard drive was
> crashing this past weekend before dying altogether yesterday morning.
>
> I've tried using the OS 9 system CD to boot but using Drive Setup, the
> harddrive shows as "not initialized" and does not appear in Disk First
> Aid. Zapping the PRAM did not help. I have since tried Techtool Pro 3
> and Diskwarrior, both of which cannot see the drive at all. Only in
> Drive Setup and in Apple System Profiler (seen as "unmounted drive"),
> does the drive seem to exist at all.
>
> I've also tried plugging the drive into other G4s (as slave) and PCs,
> but have had similarly poor results. In the PC, the drive shows up in
> CMOS, but does not appear in fdisk (nor after a /mbr), Partition Magic,
> nor in Windows.
>
> The drive seems to be spinning, at least at boot up, before the CPU/case
> fans drown it out and I can no longer hear it. I would appreciate any
> advice to recover the data on this drive before
> formatting or using a $pecialized data recovery service
>
> thanks
> Nick
> Dept of Plant/Microbial Biology
> 471 Koshland
> 2-9799
>
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