I had to run Disk Warrior once on my childrens's e-mac computer. The disk had enough errors that it took 3-4 days to recover data. There were 100's of files (mostly system files) that it could not recover, but I was able to reteive most of their documents. I then did a full format and restored the system. If your computer is under maintencnace and has not suffered from abuse, I would just let the apple store give you a new hard disk. They can charge a small fee to store all the information on the HD and migrate it to the new disk.
Best regards, Jon On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > I imagine Apple will charge the same as the vendor online, $99.95. > Ironically, I found a message someone had sent to another list about > this product and it apparently is the real deal. So, I'm giving some > thought to purchasing it myself. I've been very lucky in that I have > not lost any drives and I do have backups, but there is always that > one chance and with a kid, well, hell, anything is possible. > On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:05 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > >> >> Before you or anyone else does anything, make sure that you've >> cloaned >> your drive. Software wise, hsf is some what of a nightmair to recover >> files from so before any data recovery apps try and mess with >> anything, its important that you have an at least partially working >> copy of your hard drive stored somewhere. >> >> On 30/07/2009, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, thanks for all this. Smart status does in deed say varified. >>> >>> Do you remember off hand how much the apple store might charge me >>> for >>> disc warrier? I'm looking it up on the apple store online now, but >>> if >>> it's not expensive, say, under the $100 mark, I might just buy it >>> from >>> the apple store and let the geneus handle it. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> erik burggraaf >>> A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. >>> Phone: 888-255-5194 >>> Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com >>> >>> On 30-Jul-09, at 5:33 PM, Esther wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Erik, >>>> >>>> One quick question: when you run Disk Utility what reading do you >>>> get >>>> when you select the hard drive above "Macintosh HD" on the sidebar? >>>> That is, when you VO-Up arrow to something that says (for example, >>>> 232.9 GB Fujitsu etc.) Use item chooser menu to go to "selected >>>> disk >>>> image" and then VO-Right arrow and interact with the part that >>>> begins >>>> "Disk Description". There should be an announcement of "S.M.A.R.T. >>>> Status:" Does it say "verified" after that announcement? >>>> >>>> You can sometimes recover from this with Alsoft's "Disk Warrior" >>>> but >>>> there are accessibility issues running from the DVD, I think. If >>>> it's >>>> on a cloned disk you can run it on your home disk drive through the >>>> clone. If you have a local Apple Store nearby, they can probably >>>> run >>>> this as a diagnostic on your hard drive. They might be willing to >>>> go >>>> ahead and run it on your hard drive if you bought a copy of the >>>> software from the store (though it's slightly cheaper from the web >>>> download.) And you should probably have a new hard drive to copy >>>> to >>>> before things get seriously worse and unrecoverable. Disk Warrior >>>> does >>>> work to recover in instances such as you describe, although given >>>> the >>>> circumstances I would ask at my local Apple Store and try to have >>>> them >>>> run this. I'm sure that every Genius bar has a copy of this. They >>>> can run the diagnosis for you even if they won't run the recovery. >>>> You should know that there is a possibility of introducing >>>> problems in >>>> doing the recover mode, but in most instances it just works, and >>>> the >>>> problems are minimal. In that case, if your disk has really gone >>>> south the amount of work you'd have to do to get the problem areas >>>> fully recovered without these glitches is quite major, and probably >>>> beyond your scope. Disk Warrior does work very well, although I >>>> haven't had to use it for quite a while -- since first upgrading to >>>> Leopard. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Esther >>>> >>>> erik burggraaf wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi friends. I think something is rong with my apple hardware. >>>>> >>>>> 3 or four weeks ago I started having checksums fail when I coppied >>>>> things across the network from my old turion notebook to the >>>>> macbook >>>>> here. >>>>> >>>>> I thought it might be the disc on the other machine failing. It >>>>> is 4 >>>>> or 5 years old now after all. But I've also noticed I can't run >>>>> digital voices like alex or ryan any more. The system doesn't >>>>> stand >>>>> for it. Even when I'm using fred or bruce vo restarts often, >>>>> programs >>>>> hang, and some times the whole system seems to go dead for a >>>>> minute, >>>>> the dvd drive resets, and then the system comes back to life as if >>>>> nothing had happened. >>>>> >>>>> Yesterday I loaded up my windows vm here and tried to mac catalog >>>>> my >>>>> music folder and the wimdows system told me some fo the files >>>>> couldn't >>>>> be read. I repaired the permissions on my drive, but I checked >>>>> the >>>>> log thuroughly and nothing in my home folder had corupt >>>>> permissions. >>>>> >>>>> I did a verify disc on the hard drive and everything came back OK, >>>>> even though I sorely suspect that not to be the case. So, I >>>>> loaded >>>>> up >>>>> off the cd and tried the varify, and it still says everything is >>>>> OK. >>>>> I suspect though that the hitacci hard drive in my macbook pro is >>>>> failing. Is there any recorse for me somewhere in between disc >>>>> utility from the install cd and dropping my macbook off at the >>>>> apple >>>>> store for a couple of days? A hitacci diagnostic that runs on mac >>>>> OS10 for example, or another more thurough apple friendly third >>>>> party >>>>> diagnostic? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>>>> erik burggraaf >>>>> A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. >>>>> Phone: 888-255-5194 >>>>> Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, BEN. >> >> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
