On Dec 29, 2009, at 7:02 PM, JIM RAPER wrote: > Hello, > My old G4 Sawtooth is being phased out. Been having HD problems for a while. > The HD I want to recover files and "stuff" from is a Maxtor 60gig 5400. I had > two HDs. The other was a 10g Maxtor 7200. I made the 10g my boot drive and > used the larger for storage. The 60 kept getting worse and worse. Making a > lot of runup noise and pings and pops. Sometimes it wouldn't mount. I would > then let it cool and could occasionally get it back onto my desktop. I > retrieved as much as I could with a little jump drive a little at a time. > Mostly music and pictures left. Bought an 8GB Lexar today to try to get the > last bits off. BUT so far today no luck in mounting the 60g. I've booting > with OS CD, tried as best I could with Disk Utility. It tells me it needs > repair; it tries to repair, then says it can't; and subsequently tells me I > need to maybe use a third party disk utility. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Jim > >
I would try Drive Genius 2 or DiskWarrior. Sometimes you can freeze a drive and get it up long enough to get your stuff off, I've done this a lot. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
