Gritting my teeth.

[ysobelle]

Tai and Susan and Dad tried. They couldn't get it to boot.

The tech guys here at work have it now, and after downloading DiskWarrior (Thanks, Matt!) I'm not sure if it's making any progress.

I thought, for a brief, shining moment, that it was insured: alas, I now discover this isn't the case.

Head-->desk, repeat.



Whimper.


In other news...well, the weather's certainly gorgeous enough. Can I go out and play?

Comments

[meekay.livejournal.com]

Can I go out and play?

You can if you believe you can.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Will you tell my bosses that?

[maskm.livejournal.com]

Tell them to move the friggin' HD to another system to try and get at the data...

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

I don't actually know anyone who knows how to do that!

[maskm.livejournal.com]

This is the sole reason I will (hopefully) never own a Mac.

[thorn]

If it's the sole reason, then take another look. :-)

With the MacBook (and possible the MB Pro), Apple has returned to more accessible hard drives in their laptops. With my G3 Pismo, I can get the drive out in less than a minute, given the proper jeweler's screwdrivers. Apparently, they are finally returning to this. Hallelujah.

Can't speak to the recent iMacs; haven't worked with them in a while, but I've done upgrades on earlier iMacs. And the towers are a dream to work with.

But I suspect that there's really more than just that as the reason.... ;-)

[maskm.livejournal.com]

It's not just the fact that many, many Macs are made to be Magic Boxes.

It's the fact that so many Mac users can't work with them. Like the guy who said he was an Apple Product Professional who claimed even he would not attempt such a drive swap!

Let me know when more people have your approach toward Macs.

Oh, and I'll need some reason to actually buy one as well as eliminating all reasons to not buy one. ;)

[thorn]

1. You have my contact info. Use it next time -- I'm not frequently on LJ anymore.

2. Recent Apple notebooks (iBooks and PowerBook G4s) are a PITA to get at the hard drive, but it's possible, especially if you don't care about the final state of the computer :-) But seriously, if nothing else, we could probably have a shop pull the drive and then we can put it in an enclosure if you want to save the computer.

Disk Warrior is great for recovering from directory corruption, there are better tools for full disk recovery. In specific, ProSoft's Data Rescue II software has gotten usually excellent writeups. All this is dependent upon the drive being visible to the computer, although it may not be mountable.

3. Note to self: reconnect my backup server....

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

But I feel like I'm ALWAYS whining to you about the state of my computer. If you CAN help me, that's orgasmic! I just don't want to dump every damned thing on your doorstep.

And it seems like the directory is the problem, so we'll see what Disk Warrior does. It's taking forever, but I have a friend who rana similar program on her PC and it took four days. She said that if it immediately says, "You're screwed!" that's bad. Taking longer is better. Yes?

[thorn]

It's got a shot. Just make sure they don't write *anything* to that disk -- you want it to stay as untouched as possible, because anything new may add to the damage. Disk Warrior rebuilds a totally new directory in memory & you can use that to copy the contents to a new drive.

Failing that, the ProSoft software has a demo that will tell you what it can recover. If it looks good, then you can buy the program ($99). One step at a time, though.

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

So if DW DOES work, I won't be able to use that drive, but I can get my data, at the least?

[thorn]

If it does work, that means you should have your data, yes. That's the whole point. Note: it may only partially work, but better something than nothing. If that's the case, then it's your call as to whether to try something like Data Rescue.

As for the hard drive -- given it's state and likely age... where would you like to use it as a door stop? (IOW, would you really *want* to trust it now?)

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

Supposedly, it's only three years old. But after this, hell, no, I'll put in a new one. How much should I look to spend?

What's Data Rescue?

[well-artesia.livejournal.com]

Aww. *hugs* What happened with the insurance, sweets? Didn't they write you a claim?

[ysobelle.livejournal.com]

No. I apparently didn't have the special "computer rider."

Whimper.