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Hard Drive gone, need advice.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Windham, ME
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Ok last night 5 minutes before bed I went to update my "missing sync" software. The install went fine and required a reboot. At the reboot my machine locked up at desktop with no icons right before it goes blue and reboots . I manually rebooted and the machine hung at the little spiny thing after the apple logo, so I rebooted again and got the ghost buster logo, rebooted again and got the flashing "?" folder. So I busted out my OS X CD and tried to run disk utility. The drive can be seen, but there is no partition for it to repair. Same thing with disk warrior. Any ideas how to get the partition to show? Lucky I use deja vu to back up every night to a 2nd drive and my iPod so 99% of my crucial work is saved but If I can avoid a full reinstall of my system and apps that would be great. Thanks!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Windham, ME
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Oh yah SMART says the drive is fine also.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New York City
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Try using DiskWarrior to check out the drive.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Parker, Colorado
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My boot volume died and I purchased Data Rescue II in order to retrieve a couple months of unbacked up photos, music and dv footage, and it worked perfectly. Highly recommended for data retrieval.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Windham, ME
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Went home that night and booted up and everything worked fine! Machine just needed a few hours off i guess, all repair apps report no problems.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2005
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I'd consider replacing the drive. But then again, I'm risk averse. On the other hand a hard drive is cheap. Might be worth it.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Windham, ME
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macbook in a few weeks, think i'll save my cash for that.
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