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| Thread ID: 104637 | 2009-11-03 05:48:00 | Recoving data from Mac HDD | Chris09 (15218) | Press F1 |
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| 826830 | 2009-11-06 03:51:00 | Grab a UBCD and use one of the partition progs (Ranish would be my pick) to clone off an image of the drive. If this works ok, then that would rule out drive problems and also give you an image to play with rather than the real data. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 826831 | 2009-11-06 04:41:00 | I wonder if someone who owns a Mac ,on this forum ,is near you as this is all getting a little complicated and hooking the drive up to a system that is guaranteed to be able to read it would be my recommendation. Saying that , it sounds like the disc has failed to me. A problem not just experienced by Mac owners. I'm in Orewa by the way. |
limepile (96) | ||
| 826832 | 2009-11-06 05:14:00 | If you download and boot this (www.sysresccd.org), I'm happy to take a look at it for you via ssh - if the data is there, I should be able to recover it for you. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 826833 | 2009-11-06 08:34:00 | "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable." Do you have access to another Mac? Hook it to that and see if the data can be read. I came across a similar error when one of my user's macbook pro drive failed and I hooked it up to another mac. Sounds like the drive has failed. |
ronyville (10611) | ||
| 826834 | 2009-11-07 10:36:00 | but compare how often pcs have troubles compared to macs. It becomes even again I love this one, because it's complete rubbish. Have you looked at your own forums recently? (discussions.apple.com) I just went to Apple.com > Support > Discussions > MacBook Lets read the names of the first page of topics shall we? 1) No Firewire 2) MacBook Battery Won't Charge 3) Cant turn on bluetooth. 4) MacBook just randomly shuts down 5) LCD screen freeze 6) Very long waiting for log-in screen 7) can't connect MacBook (Core 2 Duo) to AExpress "N" network 8) HELP - macbook crashed, need to recover data 9) No Bluetooth 10) USB Hard Drive not being recognized 11) Mini-DVI to Video to SD TV, no NTC display setting, fuzzy B&W picture (That's out of 13 posts) Yeah.... I really want to buy a Mac now that I see how many problems they don't have... If you want even more proof, go read about the build quality of Mac motherboards and PSUs on badcaps.net.... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 826835 | 2009-11-07 20:11:00 | Thank you all for your assistance and ideas. I've tried with numerous programs, some can hardly read the data, others say it's totally corrupt and unreadable - 'format now' lol. I suppose if I can view some of it, it might indicate that it is still recoverable as they have a lot on their without any backups. Score one for PCs. :punk P.S: interesting point Agent, however since Macs are only used by 9% of the world's population, statistically PCs have more problems. - But can be easily fixed, where as with Macs... well, as Gary67 said, it's called monopolization. It can be fixed, but at a price. Anyway, thank you all once again! |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 826836 | 2009-11-07 21:52:00 | Have you tried Linux to read it? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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