[AlphaQuam]

Okay, here's the deal:

I was using my beige G3 listening to some mp3's and doing some design work. I go to quit out of Form-Z and my computer freezes... I try to force quit and I get the blank dialog box (not uncommon). I figure it just needs a restart. So I restart 'er and she won't boot up. She gives me the infamous question mark folder icon. So I figure I will boot up with the CD, but that won't work, either (holding down the 'c' key of course). The CD spins up, but then nevers starts. So I decide I will check the drive. I go to take it out and it is extremely hot. By this point I'm pretty worried. So...

Today I come into work and hook the drive into a G4. I start up and it won't show up on the desktop. TechTool won't even recognize the drive to repair it. I take the primary drive out of the G4, just leaving my G3 drive in there. It still won't start up with a CD.

What do you guys think? Is this drive fried for good? There's a lot of crucial information on that there and I want to get it back if at all possible, and try not to pay thousands of dollars for data recovery.

Thanks!

[Paul S]

I had a similar problem once. I unhooked the data cable from the drive and booted from the CD, then hooked up the data cable. It's not recommended, but the drive was dead anyway. It read the drive and I was able to recover some data, but it died again after a little while and I couldn't get it back. I think you are probably going to lose this one too.

[ 08-03-2001: Message edited by: Paul S ]

[Hörnchen]

I had the same once. I did like Paul S, and after the disk had mounted run DiskWorrier. No data loss, no problems since then.
Good luck

[wANCO tHE sANE]

I had that once with my old Mac. But unlike Paul and Hornchen, my drive had to be completely erased for it to work.