Hi Adrian I don't know a great deal about Hard Drives but if your mostly after email data you might want to consider trying to obtain it directly from her email server. You should be able to log in via a browser like safari or using another program if you configure it (just make sure you have the program not configured to delete the emails from the server if you go down that path).
Given that the drive is 2 combined 160GB drives I'd say it's certainly some kind of RAID 0 configuration but it's probably a hardware raid setup that is likely only to function with the case provided or perhaps a similar Lacie case would work. You will need to use both drives at the same time since RAID 0 works by storing half of your data on 1 drive and the other half on the other drive and then reading from both in order to access a file. Hope this helps Ruben > Good afternoon all. > > I have a friend in deep trouble. This week saw the 1st anniversary of the > passing of her husband of 54 years and her 80th birthday, she is severely > arthritic, so much so that she can only hold the mouse between what were her > hands and she is wheelchair bound so much her time is spent at her beloved > iMac (about a 2005 or 2006 G5 model.) > > A couple of days ago she rang me to say that her iMac was running very slow > and generally misbehaving, I went straight down and it was obvious that the > HD was failing so I took it out to Macs 4U in the > hope that the data could be recovered before it failed altogether. > Un-fortunately it failed before much of her e-mail data could be recovered, > the drive was replaced and returned to her thinking that her other files > would be still on her external back-up drive. This proved not to be the > case, altho the indicator light was on and showing usual flickering when data > is being interrogated she told me that it had not been coming up on the > screen for some considerable time. > > I brought it home with me and on inspection I found that it is a Lacie 320GB > FireWire 400 drive with two 160GB WD hard drives inside neither of which made > any noise at all. > > I removed them from the case and installed them, one at a time, in a FireWire > case of my own and connected it to my wife's iMac G5. They both made all the > appropriate start up noise and were obviously running OK but neither would > mount. After researching the problem on the WWW and trying a couple of > things one eventually appeared in Disk Utilities but the subordinate disk > image was greyed out, I tried the disk repair option but goth the following > result: > > Verify and Repair volume “Back Up” > Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. > Invalid number of allocation blocks > Volume check failed. > > Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed. > > I tried TechTools Pro 6 Data Recovery which found, on the visible one, > hundreds of files, many of them are multiple duplicated. I have only been > able to recover a few of them in tact, the rest of them are Aliases > especially the AppleWorks files. > > > Can anyone out there please advise me if there is anything else I could do to > get the second one to mount and or recover more files. > > > > > Regards, > > > Adrian > > adrianske...@me.com > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20121018/715a017b/attachment.htm > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
