As I said, I need help!
I have a 1 Ghz Dual Processor Quick Silver with 1.5 GB ram, running OS
10.4.11
I had two harddrives installed. My main drive is 150 GB but shows up
as being 120 gb. The other harddrive was about 80 GB.
Anyway... I turned the computer on today and heard a persistant
clicking noise I investigated a little, but was not too worried
because the main boot drive was functioning normally.
Later checked here on the list for possible reasons for the clicking
noise and found it was likely harddrive failure... which is when I
went looking for my second harddrive icon on the desktop... couldn't
find it so I loaded in my OS X install disk and rebooted with it
as the startup disk. The missing drive did not appear in the lineup.
I then switched back to my boot drive and made backups of all my
working files. However, I've lost access to whatever was on the
second drive, and alas, do not have a recent backup. Is there any way
to retrieve files from a "dead" drive?
Okay so I'm now missing some stuff... mainly downloaded music, and
purchased stock photos. BUT that's when it goes from bad to worse!
I turned off the computer, unplugged it, grounded myself and went in
an discounted the malfunctioning harddrive. Tried to reboot, heard
the start-up chime, after along wait, got the grey apple logo screen,
and then after another long wait, my desktop photo and dock appeared
on the screen, but my files did not load just the spinning beach
ball.. I let it sit for .5 hour but nothing was happening so I
shut down the computer again and restarted by holding down the "c"
key, since the install disk was still in the DVD drive.
I then checked the boot volume and it came up that a minor repair was
needed... did that, and then verfied the permissions. That came up
saying that everything was wrong. So I ran repair permissions.
Then I rebooted using the main drive, and that's when it gets stuck
(as detailed above)
My files are still on the boot drive, but how can I get the harddrive
to mount?
I don't have an up-to-date version of Disk Warrior. if I got the
appropriate version and ran it, building a new volume directory for
the disk, would that solve the prolem?
Any other suggestions?
I had a SCSI card in a slot that I wasn't using, so I pulled it out
just in case it was interfering with the boot process in some way.
Still get hung up at the desktop, with the spinning beachball.
Like I said earlier... HELP!
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