Thanks Ruben. I tried both disk in another FireWire case and Bob managed to recover all the data from one of them, however, the other refused to mount or even reveal itself in any of Bob's diagnostic or data recovery software despite the fact that it is spinning up OK.
I'm not sure what the next step is but giving up on it seems likely. Regards, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com On 21/10/2012, at 6:37 PM, Dark1 <da...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > If they are separate drives then one of them should probably work since it > would be unlikely that both hard drives would fail at the same time. The > only other explanation I can think of is that the original enclosure somehow > damaged both drives at the same time, which would seem unlikely. Have you > tested your firewire case with one of your own drives to be 100% certain that > it's working? > > Regards > Ruben > >> Thanks Ruben. >> >> The problem with the e-mails is that they date back a long way. This lady >> is a retired Anglican Minister and, even at the age of 80, she still does a >> lot of concealing, largely via e-mail. I will be doing as you suggest >> regarding the server. I would have done this already but when contacted >> iiNet to reinstate her e-mail set-up the only help I got was a promise to >> call me back in about 2 hours and I couldn't wait there that long. >> >> I don't think it was a RAID setup as both disks mounted on the screen and >> she stored different category files on each i.e. sermons etc. on one and >> personal stuff on the other. We will see what happens todfay. >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Adrian >> >> adrianske...@me.com >> >> >> >> >> On 18/10/2012, at 4:30 PM, Dark1 <da...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>> 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> >> >> -- 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> -- 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>
