On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:45:11 +0000 Rob Thorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have a Fujitsu 80 Gb IDE drive connected via a PCI IDE > card > inside a powermac G4 (originally in a umax s900 pulsar, but that sems > to be having startup problems now.) > > It doesn't mount, Norton only finds it when you search for missing > discs, and then crashes when loading the driver. Diskwarrior would say > there was a problem loading te driver and then not play with the > drive. > > So I tried a "takeover drive / update driver" from within Hard disc > speedtools, which didn't work properly. It brought up a dialog asking > if I wanted to initialize the new partitions. Which I didn't. > > Norton now will see the drives if I search for missing discs, biut > will then spend all night looking for filesaver data. About halfway > through the night a "clonking" sound can be heard from the drive, and > norton stops responding. > > This drive housed my music collection, and has my iTunes playlists > on > it. I've got a backup from August, but I have done alot of extra > cataloguing since then, and anyway,m I don't much fancy re-importing > 70 Gb of CDs. > > So, anyone know of any decent file recovery programs / people. I > have > a feel;ing the drive iwll need taking apart to stop it going clonk > before the data can be salvaged. > > Hope this makes sense, cheers for any ideas / insights.
OK, I'm no expert in this field, but since you say 'clonk' and not 'grind' that sounds like the actuator arm hitting the end stop because it can't work out where it is on the disk platter. It is a long while since I worked in HD testing though, so technology has moved on quite a bit (back then we were still testing field replacement 20M drives that had weight warnings on them, and a 4G SCSI drive was big!). If you value the data then getting it checked out is worth doing - but it depends on the monetary value you put on it. I've not used any companies myself, but I do know of a well priced on locally to me (Portsmouth) and they have the same background in the IBM HD manufacturing plant as I do, so if I need any data recovery I'd be talking to them (I did in fact, but haven't actually gone ahead and recovered the data yet, or decided whether to gamble my experience on a circuit board change!). The do free evaluations and discounted rates for home users. http://www.dq-int.co.uk/ As I said, I have no personal experience of the, but they are just down the road from me and would be the one I would/will try. They also quote multiple platforms supported, including Mac. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.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/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
