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- traut
my ibook started to make a clicking noise and then froze when i rebooted it, it starts up with a folder w/ a ? mark in it which ive heard is the folder of death. is there any way to retrieve data from that hard disk or fix the computer ?
i have tons of photos that i havent saved off there yet . any help would be appreciated.
- MrT0
Which OS?
- Nairn0
Traut's Blog.
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"Bought an external Hard disk"
- tank0
hook it to another mac witha fire wire connection...start up again holding the t key...the another mac will see you i book as an external HD so you can copy ypour work...than reinstall the fucker.
- traut0
osx jag.
- nopublik0
hook it to another mac witha fire wire connection...start up again holding the t key...the another mac will see you i book as an external HD so you can copy ypour work...than reinstall the fucker.
tank
(Nov 1 05, 06:08)will it work, seriously?
- tank0
did i last week with two G5,did also a while ago with a 15 and 17 inch powerbook.
i think it saved my company a lot of money cause the fool who used the other G5 did not make back uos of hi swxork...haha
- traut0
ill try it in a little while.
- gruntt0
i once had that scary question mark appear, called apple tech (pay) talked for an hour and at the last minute the tech guy dug around and told me of piece of software called Disk Warrior. I bought it the next morning (after a sleepless night) booted from the CD and I could once again see my hardrive containing all my files. That computer still works fine to this very day.
good luck.
- Luckypp0
The question mark means that the computer cannot read the drive, hoooking it up via a friewire port may work, but the clicking also is suspect of the harddrive arm going bad.
- mybrokenshoe0
Hello, sounds like the start up disk... try this
http://docs.info.apple.com/artic…
or
http://docs.info.apple.com/artic…
that might help?
- ********0
i started mine off my HD
after my mac death incident, i made a OS mirror on a external
if my mac dies again and i know it will, i can boot up from external and get files off of it
havent tried but in theory it should work
- traut0
honestly i just bought a lacie a couple days ago just hadnt had time to back up stuff... because i wanted to format and clean up the system anyway.
- traut0
ya holding t connecting w/ firewire worked until it started clicking again. the arm on the drive has to be bad i think i have to make a judgement if the data is worth paying someone a few hundred to get off the drive or just buy a new drive and go with it or just buy a new powerbook g4 all together.
- tarnation0
traut, don't fret, yet.
boot from your tiger dvd (by holding c at startup). run UTILITIES>DISK UTILITY, if it fails S.M.A.R.T., then it's definately a hardware issue.
but if you can get your hands on a mac with os 9 installed, it may still recognize your drive (if you put your ibook into firewire target disk mode).Because OS 9 doesn't check for S.M.A.R.T. and I have had success getting it to recover data from drives that OS X would not even mount from Single User Mode.
Good Luck :)
- version30
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- ********0
odd-I dreamt that happened to me last night
- tkmeister0
that's exactly what happened to my pb last week. i am still waiting to see if i can get the data back. i installed a new hd.
it's a mechanical failure. there's not much you can do with the hd once that happens.
good luck.
- traut0
anyone know where to get disk warrior cheap ?
- horton0
i haven't read all the advice so far but generally a clicking HD is a dead one.. DW won't fix it.
try to recover what you can and replace the disk.
its pretty common these days.. disks are getting too fast and big for their own good.
- mayo0
i've gotten that folder a few times and it was usually when the start up disk was not defined or something. It's the click of death that you need to be worried about.