mufngruf: Since you mentioned that this is an old ibook, I'll assume it's PPC Mac with a Macintosh bootlabel. You'll have to look closely when you snag your partition, the first 6 or 8 are typically Macintosh HD drivers for OS 9. Even if you only used OS X on this notebook, chances are the OS 9 HD drivers are in there.
For instance, my primary OS X disk is /dev/sda9 in my PowerBook. Your experience may be different, and it may move around when you put it into another machine. Also, do a google search for iBook Take Apart, and try to be specific (iBook, iBook SE, Late 2001 etc). The differences are important. Go here if you need clarification: http://apple-history.com/ Good Luck, Charles On 06/25/2009 01:43 AM, Tom wrote: > There are several ways you could proceed.� Basically you need to > create a copy of the bad disk bit by bit onto a good disk, preferably > a new one.� To achive this you need the bad disk and the good disk > connected to the same machine, which can be as simple as plugging them > into spare slots on a desktop machine or by using a sata usb cable > like the one here > http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8423 > <http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8423>.� > I would strongly suggest removing any other disks from that machine so > there is no way possible to overwrite anything you want. � When you > have them connected you boot this machine off a program like > systemrescuecd�� http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page� that runs from a > cd drive or usb flash disk.� From there you would use ddrescue from > the command line to copy as much of the bad disk as possible to the > good disk so you can do data recovery on the good disk.� It is > important not to work the bad disk any more than necessary it as it > might fail completely at any time.� The new disk must be as big or > larger than the bad one and you use a command like���� fdisk -l��� to > find the path, which will be something like���� /dev/sda��� and��� > /dev/sdb�� .�� > > > I dont know if system rescue cd will work with a fire wire connection.� > > You dont need to mount either bad or good disks for ddrescue to work > so dont worry about it, but do take my advice and physically remove > any other disks from the machine before you begin. > > > Tom� > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:59 PM, mufngruf <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Please forgive me if this is a resend... I'm new to this system - duh! > > I have an intel imac which does basic stuff, cos that's mostly > what I need. > I have an old ibook which has lots of family stuff on it and the > small drive > seems to have become suddenly corrupted.. "the volume could not be > repaired > - underlying task reported failure on exit" and that sort of > thing. Disk > warrior, or disk utility cannot rebuild/repair the thing. I can > get it to > start up with the installation disk in the drive but it will not > install a > new system on the existing volume unless I reformat the drive - > and lose all > the data. > I can firewire target the disc and it shows up on the imac but I > cannot drag > any files across... it just seizes up both machines when I try. I > don't > think there's a "mount point" - whatever that is.. > I do not understand even the most basic command line > instructions... which > is why, after all the other newbies got their questions answered, > I STILL > can't figure it out. > I have downloaded ddrescue-1.10 which contains 20 items - none of > which can > I recognise as anything that I can do anything with. > Please pretend that you have to give a step by step in this > process to a > small, albeit fairly smart, kid who just glazes over at the > technotalk. > Can anyone please help. I'm not trying to save the drive, just the > data. > Thank you in advance for your time, patience AND CONSIDERATION. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/DDRescue-me...-please..-tp24194391p24194391.html > Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue > >
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