Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
March 18th, 2007, 21:18
i have an ibook g4 with his hdd dead. no clicking no spin noise(aparently) it doesnt mount on osx, but repair soft recognize.
it is a hfs+ format drive.
im thinking on using some mac based soft to clone the drive in order to recover data. but im not shure wich one.
i have one tha let me si the block contents. some idea?
in advance thanks
March 19th, 2007, 1:37
I dont understand what ur trying to say ur saying that the hdd is not spinning means no power in drive and u want to recover data from it ?
if thats the case there is problem with ur pcb change it or repair it .
March 19th, 2007, 9:16
It has stuck spindle.
March 21st, 2007, 10:24
Hi,
lseba didn't say HDD is not spinning. He said there is no spin
noise. When software recognizes the HDD, most likely PCB is OK. Even
FW shoud be OK.
To clone such HDD I think the best software is Recover soft's MEDIATOOLS.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
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