Re: FN-FORUM: mac repair / data recovery required in london

date posted 17th October 2006 12:13

John Deaville wrote:
> thanks to all who replied
>
> my client has a g4 powermac running os 9.2, this will not start up,
> the drive clicks 15 odd times and grey screen for 5 mins and then a
> blinking question mark, i managed to get a powerbook/os9 install disk
> and booted from this, it booted up (hurrah) but no disk volumes
> mounted (boo)
>
> there are two disk drives in the machine and i cannot think that both
> would have died at the same time, could it be something else like the
> power supply to the disk drives is damaged ?

Last year, I had my ibook's hardrive break on me - it doesn't sound like
you have exactly the same problem, so it might be something that a
decent mac repair shop can fix, but I managed to boot up my hardrive as
an external firewire drive and get my data back. If you've got a
firewire input, you connect your turned-off broken mac to your turned on
working mac with a firewire cable. Then you boot up the broken mac
holding down a certain key to make sure it boots up in firewire mode
(can't remember exactly, think it was 't'). This worked for me because
it seemed to be the boot up part of my disk that was giving most of the
problems. I suspect this might not work for you, but I suggest it
anyway, as it might help somone else some time - when it happened to me
it was very stressful, and I couldn't find much good information.

Keith