On Jan 6, 2004, at 07:35 pm, Vanessa Stern wrote:
I should have said that the update to 7.6.1 was done over 4 years ago and
the machine has run flawlessly up to now. The internal drive has been
getting noisier over time. I think the problem began when we had a brief
power outage, so maybe something was screwed up when the power came back
on. I'll have to check if it's an Apple drive. I believe the drive was
upgraded from the original. I'm fairly sure that it was formatted with
Apple software.
I used to be fairly good with Macs, but have been away from them for several years now. I need baby steps.
Where is the setup utility? Nothing I've tried so far will recognize the
drive at all.
"Your a good kid, and I hate giving good people bad news..." - The Matrix
I'm afraid your hard disk has probably died. If it's been getting noisier and noisier it means the bearings on the spindle are drying out (they are lubricated once when the drive is built and as the drive ages the lube solidifies or degrades). Is it still spinning or has it suddenly gone quiet?
If it's still spinning but won't mount it's likely that if the power went off the drive heads crashed. The drive would already have had to be sick for this to happen as normally they don't crash if the power cuts out (at least mine never have). if the power went on and off a few times rapidly that might have done it as the heads have to be fully into running position in order to park right on power down.
Either way it sounds like the contents of the drive are corrupted. Try and find a utility called 'Mt. Everything' and see wether you can force the drive to mount to the desktop. If it won't try and find 'Diskwarrior' (it's not free) and try to rescue it.
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