The drive crashed. Needless to say, the person that it belongs to had no backup and the drive is CRUCIAL to him. Every time I stick it in a Mac, it just sits there and spins. I've tried Disk Warrior and Disc Rescue II, and both just freeze while trying to even scan the disk. So I stuck it in a PC, and through Disk Manager I could actually recognize it. I installed MacDisk and then the drive showed up!! Now, I tried to copy files, and its still giving me errors. At this point, I either just want to make an image of the drive, or do a repair. What can I do to save this drive? I also tried using Acronis TrueImage to make an image, and initially it said bad sectors (first at 0, then at numbers in the millions) and then when I clicked ignore TrueImage didn't recognize it anyway.
Please, I hope someone can help me.
2007-05-21 03:50:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Thats what MacDrive is for. Its a PC program to read Mac formatted drives. So now I can actually see the drive, and all of its contents. However, due to the bad sectors its giving me problems copying. Thats why I wanted to just make an image and hope a simple cloning would take care of it. Any more ideas?
2007-05-21 04:47:13 · update #1
Ask that smug jerk in the Mac commercials.
2007-05-21 03:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this an internal IDE since you say you "stick it in a Mac"? The internal drive bus on a Mac only works with HFS+ file system. You didn't mention how this drive was formatted when it was loaned to you but you call it a "bad Mac drive". Does that mean it was formatted HFS+ for use in a Mac? MacDrive (the software installed on the Windows box) has an option to repair a Mac hard drive. If you tried that, it could have made some weird problem rather than fix a problem. If you didn't do that but you are now thinking about using MacDrive to repair the drive, think twice. I would never use any drive utility other than the ones supplied by Apple to repair a critical drive with HFS+ format.
You say "every time I stick it in a Mac..." so I think this means you tried it in more than one Mac? Bad behavior in more than one Mac usually means... Macs are fine, drive has problems. When I say problems, I mean corrupt format type problems that can be corrected.
Install the drive in a Windows XP system, copy all the data to another drive and then format it FAT-32 using the standard format rather than the quick. Install the drive in an external USB case then connect it to a Mac. Now format it HFS+. Connect the Mac to the Windows computer by network (ethernet) cable and setup a mini network. Copy all the files back to the drive. That should put you back to a Mac formatted drive with all your friend's data on it.
2007-05-22 13:11:17 · answer #2 · answered by SilverTonguedDevil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try hooking it up as a slave drive on the PC and getting the important stuff off of it. You'll probably need to get a new hard drive for the computer, though, and just re-install OS X and transfer the files back with a CD or over a network or something. Good luck.
2007-05-21 03:54:52 · answer #3 · answered by Josh B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hellooooooo!!! dont be cheap ,thats the price to pay for imac .get a new 1.
2007-05-21 03:53:09 · answer #4 · answered by manny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋