Re: Clicking Drive of Doom
Here is a useful Apple document giving steps to follow when your Mac does not boot: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464 For laptops that have problems relating to switching on, waking from sleep, and not charging, reset the Power Management Unit (PMU). The PMU controls waking and sleeping, hard disc spin, backlighting, charging, and such like. It is an integrated circuit that runs a control program (micro-code) that can crash. It sometimes needs to be rebooted itself. Look here for Apple's documentation on resetting the PMU: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
Re: Clicking Drive of Doom
Wez wrote: If it ever does work briefly start backing up onto anything cause the drive is still in a very bad shape. The original IBM, now Hitachi, Desk(Death)Star failed in our G3 some time back. Different symptoms though, no noises, just an inability to read or write with the drive and running very slowly. We were in a tiz. We hadnt backed up (of course). We could see everything on the drive, we just couldnt move anything. Then I tried Toast. Blow me down, it was able to write disks!! 20+ CDs later we were most thankful I can tell you. The drive did in fact go on to make horrible clicks a little later in a spare PC. If you ever wondered what folk mean when they talk about computing's Dark Side, need you look further than a DeathStar? Cheers Paul
Re: Clicking Drive of Doom
What is with IBM inability to make HD's i've heard so many stories about IBM drive failure its not funny. So little recommendation... Stay away from Hitachi IBM drives :) WEZ!
Re: Clicking Drive of Doom
What is with IBM inability to make HD's i've heard so many stories about IBM drive failure its not funny. So little recommendation... Stay away from Hitachi IBM drives :) Personally I've had no problems with them. IBM/Hitachi make a lot of drives, they had a bad run of Deskstar drives, but that's what happens when you manufacture a lot of things and there's an unspotted fault in the process... (of course, the question is, why wasn't it spotted earlier?) If it weren't for IBM's RD division it's likely that all hard drives would have smaller capacity. The only drives I've had die recently were Maxtors. Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Join Team Sungroper in the Opinions for hire [POQ] 2005 World Solar Challenge http://public.xdi.org/=Shayfnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
Re: Clicking Drive of Doom
interesting... i'm still using that sort of drive for video applications, i checked once the webpage for tech data, where it confirms a very high power consumption plus the drives are not made for 24/7 continious use, my drives are most of the time disconnected run only for a few hours when i have to process the videos on it James On 23/03/2005, at 8:00, Paul Kitchener wrote: Wez wrote: If it ever does work briefly start backing up onto anything cause the drive is still in a very bad shape. The original IBM, now Hitachi, Desk(Death)Star failed in our G3 some time back. Different symptoms though, no noises, just an inability to read or write with the drive and running very slowly. We were in a tiz. We hadnt backed up (of course). We could see everything on the drive, we just couldnt move anything. Then I tried Toast. Blow me down, it was able to write disks!! 20+ CDs later we were most thankful I can tell you. The drive did in fact go on to make horrible clicks a little later in a spare PC. If you ever wondered what folk mean when they talk about computing's Dark Side, need you look further than a DeathStar? Cheers Paul SAD Technic Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas
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That sounds like a head crash i'm afraid. Usually the final word in dead hard drives ;\ Had it happen three times to different external SCSI IBM drives before i decided to never touch IBM again. I may be possible to hit the drive to get the heads mobile again though you are looking for a real professional to even think about that one. You will probably have to pay for data backup and some very high price (i had to just bin my drives when they crashed). Data recovery will probably have to remove the platters and use a deckstar controller to get the info off. If it ever does work briefly start backing up onto anything cause the drive is still in a very bad shape. WEZ! I've heard an old story of mac techies sitting down a Mac Classic with crashed heads on a swivel chair and spinning it very fast then stopping it abruptly to get the heads to move again. I think the comedy of that story was walking into a room with two techies learing over a mac classic on a swivel chair and spinning it like mad.. NOW YOU WILL TALK MURHAHAHHA
Clicking Drive of Doom
I have a 120Gb Htiachi Deskstar hard drive (my main drive) that started making a terrible clicking sound then a clunk last night. I immediately shut down, thinking it might have been the heat and tried starting up later with no luck, just the clicking noise and failure to recognise the drive. The machine just wouldn't start. Now, I do have backups, but I'd really like to get hold of the stuff I was working on at the time this happened (I'm four weeks away from a national tour with the band and thus feverishly working away). Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing? Is it worth taking the drive into my local Apple Store / Apple repairer, or will I need to go to a data recovery company? Any help or advice you can offer would me very much appreciated. Cheers! Callum Prior
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depends on whether the drive has had a mechanical failure or whether the directory is fragged. Sounds more like mechanical. I would put it n a firewire case and try to access it with something like Disk Warrior first and if it doesn't talk to that then Data Recovery X would be next. If it doesn't spin up at all then you are limited to paying data recovery experts big dollars to read the platters. Anthony at Computer Trade Centre is not bad at stuff like this and will be able to tell you if it's dead or not. HTH Rob On 21/03/2005, at 8:47 PM, Callum Prior wrote: I have a 120Gb Htiachi Deskstar hard drive (my main drive) that started making a terrible clicking sound then a clunk last night. I immediately shut down, thinking it might have been the heat and tried starting up later with no luck, just the clicking noise and failure to recognise the drive. The machine just wouldn't start. Now, I do have backups, but I'd really like to get hold of the stuff I was working on at the time this happened (I'm four weeks away from a national tour with the band and thus feverishly working away). Anyone had any experience with this kind of thing? Is it worth taking the drive into my local Apple Store / Apple repairer, or will I need to go to a data recovery company? Any help or advice you can offer would me very much appreciated. Cheers! Callum Prior -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
