You guys know all those problems I have had with my Rev A? Well now it is the hard drive. I have a Maxtor 120G (ATA IDE) and it has three partitions, the middle being the place where I have things I need to recover. The primary (boot partition) has 9.1.1 and will not boot. When I go up with a 9.1 CD, it sees the drive as empty, will not mount it and will not update the drivers. The only choice allowed is to initalize (loose everything). How can I recover the data if the drive is not being recognized?
I suspect that some of my earlier grief may have been caused by this drive. As soon as I can recover the data, I will slick the drive (zero all data) and keep my 'must haves' somewhere safer than on the same physical drive as the boot partition.
Any help os much appreciated.
TIA
--DDTM
*bump*
DiskWarrior will help.
It can ressurect dead volumes if it's corrupt.
I have nothing of value to add in regards of you getting your data back, however since you are having these problems with the drive, i would go and put it into a PC and then goto Maxtor's website and download Powermax and test the drive and see if it comes up with any errors or whatnot. And then if it does, go ahead and get an RMA for the drive (hopefully its still under warranty).
Tried DW 2.1, the volume is not recognized at all.
--DDTM
Well, I hooked up my 4 gig to the IDE bus and booted in 9. I could not see anything there. I rebooted in X and could see the volumes. I did a disk repair (lots of red text) and then rebooted bac onto the 9.1 system on the 120G. For some reason it threw me back into X on the 4G drive. So I rebooted in 9.1 on the 4G. Sure enough, my 120 is not mountable from Classic. I ran a disk repair against my Classic system on the 4G. The system came back clean, but I am suspicious of this install anyways.
As such, I am rebooting back into X (on the 4G) and copying all un-replaceable things to the wife's iMac (800MHz FP). Once done, I will slick all of my drives. I will also work on burning things to CD and DVD in order to keep them safer.
--DDTM
'Fritter Critter' since Apr 26 2004 - 18:16
'If it ain't broke, take it apart anyways. If you can't take it apart, break it so that you can fix it.'