on 7/12/03 1:45 PM, Roland Drake at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Vintage Macs: > > Sorry for the double post, but my computer crashed. > > Dear Vintage Macs: > > Recently a friend's Mac II drive refused to mount. The classic flashing > question mark icon appeared on the screen and wouldn't go away. I know that > the drive is still working because I can hear its internal mechanism whirring > away. > > I accessed an old copy of Norton Utilities 2.0 to see if I could do some > repairs on this disk so that I could at least retrieve the data on this drive. > Unfortunately, Norton's couldn't do anything. > > Today, I took the drive to the computer store where I work and used the > facilities in our service department to work on this drive. I tried running > Disk Warrior, but it could see the drive at all. I used Apple System Profiler > to see if it could see the drive, but this proved to be a dead end. > > Are there any other options that I can pursue to get the data off this old > drive? > > Roland :) > >
Have you tried Mt. Everything? And, again, my favorite for older Macs is still Lido 7.56, downloadable off the Internet. Either of these will do the job, unless that drive's dead, the SCSI cable's come off, or the power cord to it is loose. Jeff -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.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/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
