Sorry to hear the news Andre - Ill keep my fingers crossed that you get most
of the data back.
If you want some online disk space when you get things sorted Id be more
than happy to give you some subversion space. Again best of luck with
getting your data back - I got good results one from using
Hi Andre,
have you tried removing the drive from your MacBook (easy to do with
the new laptops) and seeing if the machine will boot from CD/DVD
without it? If not then the machine is dead, and your disk may be
recoverable. For that you'd need someone with an equivalent MacBook
that you could
of
bad sectors too and PC did not boot from it or any other device, but, lucky
I was, it worked this way... Just an idea to try...
Viktoras
---Original Message---
From: Andre Garzia
Date: 1/16/2007 6:34:01 AM
To: Improvements to Revolution
Subject: OT: lost everything, macbook
Andre
This worked for my iBook too and is a cheap and easy diy solution if
the actual drive and mechanism is OK. If there is a problem with the
drive itself, and *no other means of recovery is open to you* then you
may have nothing to lose by disassembling (or getting someone else to
Andre... It does sound like a head crash, which would have destroyed a chunk
of your disk which you have to recover through heroic effort. If the noise
was caused by something else, as it happened to me some time ago, I took the
hard drive out of my cooked computer, put into a USB external
Andre,
The fact that the computer will not boot from other drives is a good thing.
It indicates that the problem is probably on the board not the HD.
I trust you've tried removing the HD from the problem computer to see if it
works in another.
If it IS the HD, then the less tinkering the better.
Andre,
Do not have you macbook shipped out to Apple for repair before you
recover your data. Apple will typically reformat (or even replace) a
hard drive even when it is in for unrelated repairs.
It is possible that the hard drive has failed and is keeping the
system from booting from
Andre, here's another tip I ran across:
The Unix program dd is a disk copying util that you can use at the
command line in order to make a disk image. It makes a bit-by-bit
copy of the drive it's copying, caring nothing about filesystem type,
files, or anything else. It's a great way to
I also looked up and got Superduper
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html as
suggested in this thread, I forget who. It looks good - very simple - and
the purchased version is only $29.
on 1/16/07 4:48 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
Andre, here's another tip I ran
Andre,
Ouch!!!
As a Macintosh Repair guy, what you're telling me isn't sounding good.
Don't mess with your drive anymore as you could cause yet even more
damage to the platters.
You really don't want to be messing with drive platters yourself.
Send it into a professional with a Clean Room like
Friends,
I was here coding some AJAX programs and developing libraries, my
macbook just made a strange mechanical noise and then it was dead...
when tried to boot, it made lots of mechanical noises and it never
booted again. The noises are comming from the hard drive. I am
assuming I
Andre,
Wow, man, I am sorry to hear this. It reminded me once again of the
necessity of keeping thiings backed up. I'm pretty meticulous about it but
every once in a whlie I let it slide.
Hope your woes can be solved soon.
Dan
On 1/15/07, Andre Garzia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Friends,
I
Hello.
There are data recovery specialists that can take even a dead drive
and extract the data off of it. Their services usually are aimed for
corporations with hefty bankrolls, but you may be able to find
someone who can do it within your budget. A google for Data
Recovery will point
Hi Andre
The same thing happened to my old ibook recently. I didn't get the noise
but the S.M.A.R.T. status of the HD was failed.
I was only able to retrieve the data by booting up a live cd of Ubuntu
(PPC) followed the instructions below..
http://jclark.org/weblog/2005/05/24/ubuntumount/
Andre,
Very, very sorry to hear about your dire circumstances. There are a few
times when having to reprogram an app or two can be a good thing, but not
the whole working environment.
If you get back up and running, let me know. It is so easy for me to set up
an area on my web host for file
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