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Hard Drive died?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Here is the deal. One of my SATA HDs in my PowerMac G4 DP 1.42 running 10.4.7 seems to have died! The HD is making a louder than usual buzzing noise and is no longer mounting on the Desktop. Disk utility does not see it as well. The only drives that show up in Disk Utility are my start up and another additional HD. I took the drive out and tried it in another computer same deal... it does not mount.
I got the following message that randomly came up when I was trying some things in single user mode. AppleK2SATA@1 phy dectected but not in ready state - AppleK2SATA@1 status: CL=ff, CH=ff, SC=ff, SN=ff, AltStat=ff.
Is there any hope?? I have freakin ton of music on there (60GB). No back up either. just my iPod that only holds 20GB!!
Please help!
Thanks
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
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Prosoft's Data Rescue II can extract the data off the hard drive. I bought the retail version, but a free demo from Prosoft is at their site. May be worth a try.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2006
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weird noise from HDD=very very bad
Get whatever you can, however you cann off of that drive pronto, and don't power up that disk more than you have to before you try to.
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
Location: England
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if all hope fails, and it sounds a ticking noise when it spins up that eventually stops, he head might be stuck.
i actually had an old 70MB hard drive that failed to spin up, so, i took the top of off it and messed around with the head, and, to my supprise, it spins! i had lemmings back in no time.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2006
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If all else fails, and it is really, really worth it, there are companies that will take apart your HDD and recover what they can off of it. I think they are a bit pricey, though.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
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Originally Posted by Tuoder
If all else fails, and it is really, really worth it, there are companies that will take apart your HDD and recover what they can off of it. I think they are a bit pricey, though.
iirc I was quoted around $500 for data recovery this way.
That's why I opted for Prosoft's Data Rescue II
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Originally Posted by Rev-O
iirc I was quoted around $500 for data recovery this way.
That's why I opted for Prosoft's Data Rescue II
The problem with that is that you could be trying to use a faulty head to read data off of a faulty disk. There aint't an app that can help with that. They also give you a HDD with many of those services.
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