On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:31:57 -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Perhaps, I've never needed to go that far. The one time I thought I had > a hard drive go bad and put it into another computer, it didn't get any > errors on boot. I just fsck'ed it and it was fine. Turned out to be a > hardware problem on the origional computer. > > My only experience with a laptop hard drive is on my IBM Thinkpad 600E. > On that, you don't have to tear apart the unit: one screw releases a > cover and you slide out the hard drive. > Thinkpads, Toshibas, Dells, etc have been easy for hard disk replacement. However, Macs involve quite a few screws with weird heads to open them. This Powebook G4 had 19+12 screws!!
> So I've never actually needed dd_rescue so I don't know if it would be > better. As long as its not worse, then just that. The important thing > as I understand it is to get an image of the drive once then power off > the drive. Do all your fixing on a copy of the filesystem image. Once > you know what that needs, you can do it to the drive itself. > > Doug. > I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :( Any other suggestions? /KS -- KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]