Dear all, A friend came to me after his imac had a very bad hard drive crash. The system was unusable and appeared to be unrecoverable using his utilities (I think he mentioned something about "Norton". Since I use Linux exclusively, I'm not familiar with these tools). After some Googling, I found that imacs use IDE, just like PCs do.
I opened up the imac, pulled the drive, and made a loop back image of the drive using some low level Linux tools and burned everything to disk. His data (which was irreplaceable and, of course, not backed up) was recovered in full. I was going to simply write the image back onto a new drive, but the OS seemed hosed -- a bunch of bad sectors fell right onto the part of the filesystem holding what was obviously OS owned files. It seemed like a better idea to just buy a new drive and reinstall the OS. I then bought a nice 80GB 7200rpm drive and placed it in the imac. After putting the imac together, i found that the CDROM drive door got caught up on the "outer shell" of the computer. It wouldn't open. Looking over some pictures, I realized that there is supposed to be a bracket that screws onto the hard drive, and a tensioner is supposed to hook onto it. I don't have the bracket anymore --- I must have stupidly thrown it out when i tossed the bad hard drive into the garbage. I'm guessing the CDROM drive isn't flush with the "hole" in the shell because the bracket is suppsed to provide some support. So now I need to find a hard drive bracket. I Googled for awhile and couldn't find anything. I seriously hope I don't have to buy a whole computer just for the this part! Can someone *please* help? Where can I find a replacement for the bracket that holds the hard drive in an imac? Is there a website that sells imac replacement parts? Thanks much! Pete -- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't. GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
