[ale] Know anybody who knows macs, hd, etc. in NC Triangle?

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Sat Aug 29 14:20:40 EDT 2009


The first question to ask would be, is the drive intact
physically and electronically? Pop it into a Linux box and see
if fdisk can read the raw disk.  If the disk can't be detected
or read, probably the onboard ATA interface electronics have
bit the dust.  In that case I'd personally go to a professional.

If it really *is* just boot-record corruption, you could probably
get the default partition info from any recent Mac and use fdisk
to re-establish analogous partitions on the fubar'd drive.  I've
done that a couple times with ATA disks with corrupted partition
tables, working from known partition boundaries.  (In my case I
had partitioned several identical drives identically, for RAID
use; so the correct partition boundaries were easily available.)

-- JK



david w. millians wrote:
> You know the slogan about the problem with making a computer idiot 
> proof, how you make better idiots? Yeah...
> 
> In spite of my best efforts, my cousin may or may not have backed up her 
> mac with time machine. (How much more PAINLESS can you make backup? Plug 
> it in, say yes, that's it... anyways...)
> 
> Her mac was booting to a white screen. There doesn't appear to be a 
> click-o-death situation here. The mac geniuses repaired it, and said it 
> was the hd. Fair enough.
> 
> Being as how it wasn't click of death, does anybody know somebody in the 
> research triangle area of NC who you would trust to use a recovery tool 
> on an external drive? The computer's about 9 months old, so my gut is 
> that the HD just corrupted some boot areas, but not the data...
> 
> Or, any advice about mac hd recovery would be welcome. If it's not COD 
> on a mac hd, is it endangering it more to try this afore resorting to 
> the $3000 recovery people?
> 
> Sigh,
> David
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