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January 28th, 2005, 11:01 PM
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| Hard Disk Recovery software- semi-emergency... heh... oi vey So.... basically, I had noticed that my Mac has been acting slow lately.... getting the spinning beach ball... and before I could get the chance to back all of my stuff up, the computer starts refusing to be used. Most of the time, it doesn't start up, and when it does, it refuses to do anything in the Finder. WHen I try disk first aid, it gives me mucho errors... so, basically, my entire folder heirarchy is kind of screwed up.... so, basically, I'm asking, which would be better at rebuilding the folder tree structure files? DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro 4? Anybody had experience with either doing that job? Any alternatives I've missed for this job?
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January 28th, 2005, 11:35 PM
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| Well, it really depends on what kind of errors you are getting. I've found that TTP often finds stuff that DU doesn't, and vice versa (I haven't tried DW yet). You can boot off your OS X install CD, right? That's how you're running tests on it, right? Does your computer boot into OS 9? I've found that the OS 9 installer CD, or the OS 9 version of TTP, will recognize my hard drive and let me boot from it when the OS X version of these CD's does not. Are there any other Macs in your vicinity that you can use to boot your Powerbook in target disk mode? That would at least let you rescue your data and reformat.
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January 29th, 2005, 04:17 AM
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| Yes, I can boot from the Mac OS X (pather) install CD fine, as well as the AppleCare CD which has TechTool Deluxe (not the full pro versionon it). And, Yes, There are other Macs in the vicinity, and other hard drives... the problem, however, is, the hard disk catalog is in such bad shape, the hard disk doesn't want to mount. I get spinning beach balls half the time when I want to just scan, much less "repair" the dang thing. I'm in rainbow beach ball city. So the only hope of recovering my data is through a disk repair tool, first. I shall go back to Disk Utility, and see what errors I can report back here.... TTP= Tech Tool Pro... By the way, what's DU?
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January 29th, 2005, 04:26 AM
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| DU=Disk Utility
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January 29th, 2005, 05:46 PM
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Disk Utility/fsck is highly unlikely to be able to handle the situation you are describing.
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January 29th, 2005, 05:53 PM
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| Those tips are all good and might help. However I wonder how anything like it does ever _happen_ in the first place. In my experience harddrives that could be 'saved' with TTP would soon act up again. So I've come to the conclusion that I forget about those tools and rather have really good backup solutions and _if_ a drive acts up, I clean the drive and restore from the backup. If it goes bad again in short time, the drive's replaced.
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January 29th, 2005, 09:37 PM
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| I agree, Fryke. However, everything was just going jim dandy with my PowerBook for a year.... good thing I've got AppleCare. However, they don't do file recovery... So, I got DiskWarrior, and had it "rebuild" my hard disk structure... but then after the computer started up with all my settings and such, I was just back at square one with the rainbow beach ball of doom. What I'm doing now is trying to rebuild it while started up from a huge external hard drive which will also serve as my backup device for clean wipe. Unfortunately, now Disk Warrior is giving me a comment "Speed inhibited by disk malfunction" WHILE it's "Rebuilding directory." Bah. I want my data. I know it's there! Disk Warrior SHOWED me at one point! I'm just having trouble GETTING to it. Maybe it's time to open my wallet again for TechTool.... bah.
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