A friend of mine has had what sounds like a hard drive crash of a LaCie Tsunami external SCSI drive connected to a G3 Mac. She isn't sure exactly what size the drive is; she says believes it's more than five years old and in the 100-200 MB range.
She says it made a "clicking" or "clunking" sound right before (or when) it died. Now when plugged in and connected it emits several beeps, the power light blinks red for a while and then goes solid green, but it doesn't appear to spin up. She has several months of unbacked-up data on this drive and would really like to be able to recover whatever is recoverable. She has called several places that recover data, but they have estimated a cost of $500-$1200 -- if it's even recoverable. That's more than she can afford (or thinks the data is worth to her). Does anyone out there have any suggestions on: 1. Tricks she might try to get the drive to spin up at least one more time so she can copy files off it? 2. A lower-priced data recovery option? Thanks. Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
