Here's an interesting little puzzle for a MacGeek: I have an iMac G3 (tray-load), running 10.3.9, with a badly munged hard drive. At boot it displays the gray screen with the Apple and hangs. Doesn't even get to the spinning sprocket.
Booting from CD(s): Disk Utility goes looking for drives and never gets out of that mode. First Aid (System 9.2), gets to "Checking Volume Extents" and gives up. Norton Utilities (v5, System 8.6), won't boot all the way up. Data Recovery X and Disk Warrior 3.0.3 won't boot at all (the CD drive on this iMac is a bit flaky and will only read certain disks). The _only_ utility that successfully finds anything is an old version of TechTool (3.0.5), which boots into System 9 and can find some files on this disk that I would like to recover. Problem is, that requires a disk to write the files to. I have external Firewire drives, but this version of the iMac has no firewire ports. I have connected an Ethernet cable to the iMac and tried to access a server on the network, but every computer on the network I choose ((remember, I'm using Chooser in System 9.2; Chooser does at least find all of the available computers that have file- sharing turned on) gives a message of "server unexpectedly disconnected" after I enter the username and password in the connection dialog. I can directly connect my Powerbook and this iMac via an Ethernet cable, but I can't get Chooser to find my Powerbook, even if I turn file-sharing on on the Powerbook. How can I get this iMac to recognize a network volume -- or some other writable device that I could attach to it-- so I can recover these files? | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
