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Hard drive is dying...
« on: June 19, 2010, 12:29:31 PM »
My drive is dying so I'm trying to recover my files.


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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2010, 12:34:51 PM »
No way! That's like, a HD crash for nearly everyone on the forum in the space of two years! :o Do you have enough backup space?
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2010, 12:42:20 PM »
Yeah though I'm having issues starting up my computer. If I can't get it up then I can't get my files.


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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2010, 12:54:42 PM »
Is the drive clicking?

I had some corruption on my G5 recently and it wouldn't boot. All I had to do was boot off a FireWire drive. OS X told me that it was mounting my G5's drive as read only due to filesystem corruption. I copied all my files, wiped the drive, reinstalled OS X and everything was fine. It was only a software problem, not a hardware problem, and I lost no files.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2010, 01:17:46 PM »
I think that mac harddrive failures are becoming more common nowadays. Most of the macs that I know about which have failed have done so due to the harddrive.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2010, 02:08:20 PM »
The system files may just be corrupt though if I had an external drive to boot off of...


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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2010, 06:03:56 PM »
Is the iRPG stuff backed up at least? If you really can't start the computer then take out the HD and buy one of those internal HD to USB kits.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2010, 06:45:51 PM »
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The system files may just be corrupt though if I had an external drive to boot off of...


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Do you have another Mac, and do both Macs have FireWire? You can place the failing Mac into target disk mode, then mount it on the good Mac to recover your files. Then erase the drive and reinstall OS X.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2010, 07:42:32 PM »
Lost all data on my hard drive. Though managed to stick my most important sources on my iDisk before the hd died.


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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2010, 07:51:00 PM »
Sorry, felt like it didn't belong in announcements, though that really sucks.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2010, 08:32:47 PM »
No worries, after I made it I wondered the same thing.



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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2010, 02:22:55 AM »
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Lost all data on my hard drive. Though managed to stick my most important sources on my iDisk before the hd died.


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So what's the actual status here? Is it clicking, or not spinning up at all? If the drive spins up, data is still recoverable without large expense. I remember an old 250 MB SCSI drive a friend had. One of the chips on the logic board of the drive blew up. He bought an identical drive from eBay and swapped the logic board, and the drive booted up fine and worked for years after that.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2010, 09:41:55 AM »
Drive's alive, data's not. Already zeroed and re-installed. Just need to download my sources and get to work on trying to fix up Balloon Pop for an update.


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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2010, 03:07:51 PM »
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Drive's alive, data's not. Already zeroed and re-installed. Just need to download my sources and get to work on trying to fix up Balloon Pop for an update.


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If your drive is alive - if it was still working 100% mechanically, you could have used a simple terminal command to image the entire drive and recover (usually) all of your files.
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Re: Hard drive is dying...
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2010, 03:44:06 PM »
That's probably possible but the terminal on the OS X boot cd is limited and I'd have no place to save the bundle. I tried hooking my Mac to another Mac laptop through target mode but it wouldn't see the hard drive.


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