If worse comes to worse sometimes the thing that has failed is the controller board on the hard drive itself. A couple of years ago I had a power surge that destroyed a lot of stuff including my ata133 controller and the hard drive connected to it. I had to buy and new ata 133 card and as it turned out the controller board on the hard drive itself was the only thing bad with the drive. I wasn't sure the controller board on the Hard Drive was bad but I rolled the dice and found a guy on ebay that buys old hard drives and resells the controller boards to people who have dead hard drives. It worked. I saved the drive and was able to copy all the data onto another hard drive including my 80GB iTunes collection.
I thought there might be some life in the drive when I thought I heard a faint ticking noise, and I mean really faint. The replacement board cost me $40 (returning customers get a $5 discount). These controller boards have all sorts of model numbers drive names, batch numbers and manufacture dates that have to match exactly for the board to work. They provide the special screwdriver required. I would try googling hard drive controller board and your manufacturer. Mark Murphy > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
