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

date posted 17th October 2006 12:27

thanks for that - it was on my list of things 'to do' - i just assumed
that as they dont mount on the other, it would be a wasted effort -
but i will try later on - thanks


john




On 17 Oct 2006, at 12:39, Keith Alexander wrote:

>
> 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
>
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