Hi there, My mom has a blue and white imac. A few weeks ago, she had a hard disk crash and the imac stopped booting.
She had irreplaceable I told my step father that I'd try to get her data back. After Googling, I found that imacs use normal IDE drives with the HFS+ filesystem. I asked him to take the hard drive out and give it to me. Once I had the hard drive, I was able to connect it to my PC (sorry). I loaded the HFS+ module that comes with Linux and was able to mount the hard drive. Linux comes with advanced tools for low level data recovery. I found that there were indeed a series of bad blocks. Luckily, the bad blocks held operating system data, not user data. The first thing I did was make a low-level image of the entire drive. I then unmounted the drive and worked with my image. I did this just in case the drive itself was failing. Anyhow, I was able to retrieve all her user data and burned it to a bunch of disks. Went to Comp USA and purchased a decent 7200rpm ATA 100 60GB drive (judging from the imac connector, it looks like imacs aren't capable of ATA 100, but the drives are backwards compatible with ATA 66 and 33). I need to put this thing back together. The problem is, I didn't take it apart and I've never seen the inside of an imac before in my life. I really don't know much about imacs beyond the fact that they're made by Apple (who made the ultimate hacker's computer: the Apple ][). Some detailed pictures of the inside of an imac would really help here. I found this: http://www.theimac.com/drive_steps.shtml Unfortuantely, the pictures are too small to be useful and are very poor quality. I can barely see a thing in them. What I need is some high quality BIG pictures of the inside of an imac that shows the details. For instance, the CDROM drive appears to have some kind of thin metal bracket, and I have absolutely no idea how it goes in. Does anybody have an URL for the kind of pictures that I need to put this computer back together? If you want to send pictures directly to my account, that's not a problem. I have broadband and use Linux exclusively, so it's very difficult to choke my MTA. :-) Much appreciated! Pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick any two (you can't have all three) --- RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths (The 7th truth) -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
