Repair/Recover HD??

[tcastudios]

Are you running OSX?
If so, if you just have jumped to 10.4.6 or .7, there is a known issue that external FW drives don't mount. The cure for that is is to turn everything off, unplugg the FW's. Restart, and reconnect the FW's after a few minutes, as to "re-set" them.

Second issue, that I've personaly have had with LaCie FW, is that it's the powersuppliers that's gone south, try a new/another powersupply.

Holding my thumbs for your HD it hhaven't been messed up by trying to repair it.

Cheers
Lennart

[Primitiv]

The drive was hooked on my G4 that runs OSX 10.3.9. I tried it on my G5 with 10.4.6 without success. Attempts to repair failed and I don't think it did anything to the HD. DiskWarrior also failed.

The HD failed after it was accidentally kick down by my young daughter. I checked it immediately after it happened and it was still running, but at the next restart of the computer it did not mount. I imagine the directory has been damaged and possibly the disk itself. I am sure that there must be a way to recuperate data from it. I just don't know how.

[tcastudios]

Oh...I had one fallover (it was standing under the desk for copying and was kicked) and it was waste...hope your is recoverable. I think there is a thread about this a few months back with links.

Cheers
Lennart

[vid2k2]

Hi Yves,

Try replacing the cable and try another FW port on the G4 ....

Might be defective prongs or cable ??????

Worse comes to worse, I've used ....

Drive Savers
1.800.440.1904

[acmepixel]

My favorite solution is a 25 pound sledge hammer. expensive, but oh so satisfying.

and if you have unlimited funds, try DriveSavers. They charge as much as $2500.00 to extract data from all the platters. (they dismantle the drive in a clean-room, and put each platter in a special reading device). They can restore data from scorched, broken, scrached and otherwise mangled platters.
http://www.data-recovery-tools.net/dr/drivesavers.html
and another one;
http://www.fields-data-recovery.com/data-recovery/home.html

then there's recovery software you can buy. some of these you can download and test first;
http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php?PHPSESSID=c4c972a17c2abc8d16f6db5c575837ed
http://www.dtidata.com/recover_it_all_mac.htm
http://www.unistal.com/quick_recovery_MAC.html
http://www.gold-software.com/download9538.html

good luck

[bdjones]

try pulling the hd from the LaCie case and plug that into an internal slot to make sure there is no problem in the LaCie case/board/power

[Primitiv]

try pulling the hd from the LaCie case and plug that into an internal slot to make sure there is no problem in the LaCie case/board/power

Could work. I am pulling my stuff using Data Rescue II right now and it seems to be working. It is not very fast though.

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