DATA RECOVERY !!!! HELP !!!!!
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- traut
Just bought a new powerbook g3 , 3months ago the hard drive freaked on me and i cant get my data off it apple cant help so there wanting me to use a 3rd party im getting quotes of 1900.00 $ any one out there have the skills to help or know a cheaper alternative ?
- harlequino0
Data Rescue 2. Works great, saved my arse once.
- traut0
to what extent was the drive damaged ?
- harlequino0
Nearly totally fooked. It's only 100-200 bucks for the software, better than paying a recovery firm a couple grand.
- danthon0
Try disk warrior as well. I have run it on drives that got fucked up by power surges and it fixed them with no lost data.
- turosatano0
Data Rescue II. I've had to use it twice this year on two drives one really almost dead. Its really easy to use , however when you get your data back look inside folders and directories and make sure your stuff is there cause on the first time i used it it got folders back but then I realized they were empty or with corrupt data after I had thrown the drive away. The second drive it got everything back but I had to run the program many times on t drive. very time consuming but i got everything of value.
- turosatano0
Disk Warrior is very good too but if its a Hardware thing or if it's too damaged it might make it worse.
- tkmeister0
i have a damaged hd sitting at home. i took it to a mac place and they had no luck.
should i buy a IDE-USB cable and hook it up to my pb then use disk warrior? is it worth trying?
- danthon0
tk
I put mine in an external firewire enclosure. They would not mount initially, but after I ran disk warrior all was peachy.
- tkmeister0
i shall try. thx danthon.
- barbtastic0
traut: call micro center, i know they will do it, but can't remember the cost.
also, can you boot it at all? have you tried fire-wiring it to another mac?
- horton0
traut how did the HD "freak".. ?
like Danthon is saying there's lots of repair that can & should be done before you guy writing it off as a dead disk.
first use OSX Disk First Aid, then DiskWarrior.. maybe TechTool... and if it still will not mount start considering Data Rescue.
DiskWarrior has many times repaired for me what I thought was a dead disk.
- turosatano0
if the damage is hardware related, like too many bad sectors, or the disk is too old, (I can tell by the noises the drive makes) Disk Warrior might be able to help but the disk will fail again, so you should plan on recovering your data and not using that drive again. I dont know if that is the case here. If the problem is software related Disk Warrior is the one to use.