Coming of Christ

July 22, 2008

The hard drive in my PowerBook G4 just died.

I have hard drives happily at work that pre-date the first coming of Christ, but of course, Apple had to put in a cheap, crappy drive and now I’m fcuked.

The funny thing? System Profiler sees the drive, but Disk Utility doesn’t. I’m - naturally - out of warranty, so, uhm, yeah.

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  1. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

    Good luck.

    Comment by mikesum32 — July 23, 2008 @ 2:34 am

  2. About 6 months ago I replaced the DVD drive and hard disk on my PB G4.

    Dismantling a PB is intimidating but you can find instructions at (AFAICR) http://www.ifixit.com which guided me through to a large drink when it was all done.

    Have had my wrists slapped for putting in a HDD (Seagate 7200RPM with 8MB cache) that knocks battery life …. but it does wonders for performance! The original was 4300RPM with 2MB cache so not in the same league.

    Good luck … it is all doable though the professionals will charge stupendous fees for it.

    Comment by Alastair — July 23, 2008 @ 3:21 pm

  3. Ack! I feel your pain.

    Does it seem to be a physical problem with a the drive (audible head-crashing, etc)?

    If it’s *only* a corrupted volume, there may be some hope. It does seem that OS X is especially prone to software-related data corruption - the plus side is that there are plenty of applications for recovering files from corrupted HFS volumes.

    There’s one that I’ve had fairly good luck with called “Data Rescue II” ( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1133 ).

    - Stephen

    Comment by StephenB — July 24, 2008 @ 6:09 am

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