HD-Trouble

robherff · #1 November 7th, 2003, 02:44 AM

Yesterday aloss of power while booting damaged the primary hd. Systemprofiler tells that the hd and the partion is still there. But the hard disk from 10.3 util cannot examine or repair the disk: Errorcode -9972 an something like "damaged knodes".
The hd' desktop icon is shown but Finder tells "no files, 32 GB free". The volume has 60 GB, 50% are used.
Any ideas how to get acces to the volume and the files?
thanx for any hint.

r.

edX · #2 November 7th, 2003, 05:24 AM

no utility saves lost and damaged drives as well as Diskwarrior.

repairing your normal boot drive will probably be easier with a secondary boot drive or a boot from a repair utility cd. any additional information about your hardware setup might be helpful in helping you.

robherff · #3 November 7th, 2003, 06:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edX

no utility saves lost and damaged drives as well as Diskwarrior.

repairing your normal boot drive will probably be easier with a secondary boot drive or a boot from a repair utility cd. any additional information about your hardware setup might be helpful in helping you.

Thanks for your support,

fortunately I do have a second hd and while typing these lines I'm actually working with it.

But the damaged hd contains files which have been working realy hard for: e.g. several graphic files for my website and much more.

I've heard a lot about diskwarrior's performance an so I tried to buy it online. Nevertheless there's no version for "Panther" yet.

So do I have to downgrade back to "Yaguar"? What I'm doing at the moment is creating an bootable cd from the 10.2 which does not lead me into the install procedure.

About my system: AGP G4@350 Mhz, 1,1 RAM, 120 GB Hitachi, 60 GB IBM (damaged), DVD-ROM, TEAC CD-Writer 516, Internetconnection@768 k

regards robherff

bobw · #4 November 7th, 2003, 08:12 AM

The current version of DiskWarrior, 3.0, works fine with Panther as long as you're booted from the DW CD or another drive.

robherff · #5 November 7th, 2003, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobw

The current version of DiskWarrior, 3.0, works fine with Panther as long as you're booted from the DW CD or another drive.

Many thanx for this hint.

R.

Arden · #6 November 9th, 2003, 07:06 AM

There are companies such as Drive Savers who, for fees starting at $100, will recover any and all data on your platter. Keep this in mind in case everything goes to hell as you attempt to resurrect your drive.

They can recover data from drives that have been burned in fires and flooded in rivers, so a "mere" crashed hard drive is no problem.