Dead HDD

Has anyone tried to replace the HDD (Toshiba model MK1003GAL) on a 3rd generation iPOD?
can you provide some tips, for example...replacing with a similar HDD (current HDD is obsolete), new software, additional items required to bring it back from the dead...
Thanks for your help in advance....

I'm interessed too, if anyone tried ...

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T410s - Recovering Dead HDD

My T410s which had shutdown quite normally and didn't give any indication of problems died suddenly with a blue screen of death. I tried rebooting in different safe modes, The disk is cold dead and inaccessible even as a slave drive on another computer. My tech support person said he tried to "freeze" (as is low temperature) the HDD in the hope that it might jiggle the platters back to action. Didn't work either.
Any suggestions on recovering files from the disk since I have some files that I really need?
My tech support says that since data is encrypted, even a data recovery service will be unable to read the files. But I wonder whether such folks couldn't do a bit-level copy to another disk which I can then read off as a slave drive?
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IBook G4 Dead HDD and No OS?

Hey guys thanks for checking out this post and helping me out, so long story short I've got a iBook G4, ( Last model Apple made (14 inch, 1.4 GHz) ) and I got it with a dead HDD and since the HDD was dead there is no OS in it. Im aware that you can buy Leopard or Tiger at eBay or Amazon but for a big price tag, and the HDD is a pain to get to in the iBooks, I changed a HDD in a 2008 Macbook and it was so easy compared to this. So the question I really have is that where can i buy leopard really cheap or if i took it to a local computer repair shop how much would you think they'd charge me for a HDD repair + Leopard installation? I know the G4 is basically obselete but I always loved the White Computers Apple made so I'd love to restore it.
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To follow this question at your second posting in its new thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5612603?tstart=0
Not sure what else may be a repair on the unit should the symptom be caused by a failed connection on the logic board or a solder joint on either a CPU or GPU module. Companies who specialize can do this kind of re-solder repair, some are better set to do this on a regular basis and have modern facilities to re-solder boards.
I see where wegenermedia.com says they can do these, too.
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Mac SE FDHD with dead HDD - boot and run from floppy drive alone? HDD type?

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I picked up a Mac SE FDHD a few months back - a model with a Superdrive and hard drive, as well as 4 MB of RAM. It came with a keyboard and mouse, but no floppies of any kind. Upon testing, I discovered that the hard drive did not work - the "flashing question mark folder" appears at startup, and the disk setup utility on the system 6 install disks I created using a more modern mac can't detect it. I don't hear HDD seek sounds either. Everything else works fine, as far as I can tell. The reason I want to use this old Mac is simply to boot it up and run a few favorite old programs (such as MacPaint and many old games), so I don't want to put too much money into it.
I discovered my parents still owned a old, 170 MB "LaCie Tsunami" SCSI external drive, used with our long-failed Mac II, and decided to use as the SE's boot drive, as a cheap workaround to avoid buying a "new" drive. However, after a rather odd turn of events (described below for information purposes), it turns out that the 50-pin SCSI drive itself functions, but in the process, I think I killed the enclosure. Unless this drive can replace the internal drive of the SE, (or get lucky and find a compatible drive somewhere), I'll need to run the SE from its single floppy drive.
I figure that since the original Mac had 128k of memory, a single 800k floppy, and no hard drive, and yet can still run OS 7, the SE should be able to run system 6 from floppies somehow. The question is how? Is there a tutorial online somewhere on how to set this up?
Furthermore, as far as the hard drive is concerned, is the SE's internal drive a standard 50 pin SCSI HDD, and thus likely compatible with the one from the LaCie?
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WHen I attached to the LaCie drive to the SE and booted the OS 6 install disks, t worked - OS 6 installed to it just fine. However, it turns out that a "dormant" copy of Norton utilities reactivated when I booted to the SCSI drive, and encrypted the disk's partition table. (Why it was not encrypted BEFORE installing and booting OS 6, I don't know) Having not used the drive for 17 years , and thus not knowing the password, I had to reformat it. I have a Sawtooth G4 with an Apple SCSI card - but no cable that would go from the PCI card's SCSI port to the external enclosure. THus, I removed the drive from the enclosure, mounted it in the G4 internally, and formatted it as Mac OS Standard (with OS 9 drivers) using Mac OS 10.3. Upon re-installing the drive in its SCSI enclosure, I found that it no longer works - Norton was erased, but the SE gives me a "Sad Mac" icon upon boot. Furthermore, after borrowing the correct SCSI cable, I found the enclosure now kernel panics my G4 when attached. The drive itself, when mounted internally in the G4, still functions perfectly. Thus, it seems that either the enclosure is dead, or something about OS X's reformat is renders the HDD incompatible with the enclosure...

"I removed the drive from the enclosure, mounted it in the G4 internally, and formatted it as Mac OS Standard (with OS 9 drivers) using Mac OS 10.3."
I just re-checked Disk Utility's format options under Panther and only see "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" or "Mac OS Extended." I don't see an option for formatting Mac OS Standard. Are you certain that you formatted the drive as a Mac OS Standard (HFS) volume? If it's a Mac OS Extended (HFS+) volume, that would explain why it won't work when connected to the SE. When using external SCSI enclosures having a hard drive or optical drive, I always opted to connect an "active" SCSI terminator to the unused SCSI port on the enclosure. It seemed to provide stability, because I never had a problem with any of them. Does the LaCie enclosure have a built-in termination switch or do you plug in a terminator to the opposite SCSI port on the back? As for installing/using the 170 MB hard drive in the SE, it must have a jumper installed on its TE pins, if it's the last device connected to the SE's SCSI ribbon cable. Additionally, the HDD must have a unique SCSI address, The factory default is usually 0, which doesn't necessarily require a jumper. If another address is desired, a jumper or two installed across specific pins will accomplish that. If the LaCie enclosure had a switchable SCSI address button on the back (you change it by pressing in with a ball point pen), there were small wires from it that were connected to the drive's address pins in a specific way. Did you disconnect/re-connect these when you re-installed the drive in the enclosure? Also, if the enclosure has a termination switch, did you re-connect its wires to the drive's TE pins?

Replacing 1 dead HDD in Array of a proliant ml350 sever

hello,
I have a 3 hdd array 5 server, one of the disk died, can I replace the dead disk with another of different capacity ?
thanks

This would be a better forum for that question
See servers section
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/home.do?forumId=2&admit=109447626+1281670914662+28353475
or here
http://forums11.itrc.hp.com
Yes but performance could suffer slightly. If it is a larger size, it will only use the amount of disk space equal to the others in the array, the rest of the space will be unusable.
It is always best to use a drive of the same model in the array if you can.

Certified dead hdd: should i try the freezer trick?

my hdd died a couple days back and i sent it in to apple.
they certified that it's dead and it'll cost upwards of 1000 bucks to recover the data, which i'm not able to afford.
i've read about the freezer trick and am thinking of giving it a try.
but the thing is i am under applecare and apple is able to replace the hdd for free; but i'll be unable to get my old hdd back. (stupid policy) so if i get them to replace the hdd for me i lose any chance of recovering my data.
if i choose not to get a replacement hdd, i can try the freezer trick but i'll have to buy a new hdd on my own and do the replacement. and also voiding my applecare in the process.
what do you guys think? has the freezer trick ever worked for your macpro hdd? i've googled but haven't found much info pertaining specifically to mac hdds.

Either would be fine to use. FireWire (especially FireWire 800) is faster; USB is cheaper.
You can either buy a bare-drive adapter cable like this...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/
...or an inexpensive drive enclosure like this:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ES2.5BPU2S/
Or you can spend more and get a high-quality FireWire enclosure. I recently bought this one and am very pleased with it:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MSTG9438U2OB/
To my knowledge, there are no bare-drive cable adapters that connect to the computer via FireWire. I've never seen one offered, and I don't know why not.
An enclosure would be a considerably better choice if you intend, after trying to recover your files, to buy another bare hard drive on which to back up your new internal drive, after mounting it in the enclosure. Frankly, you're nuts if you don't intend to do this after your current tribulations.

Time machining to an SSD from dead HDD

So my HDD has lots of errors and it keeps dying.
I need to replace the SSD and I will soon but I'm not sure whether it's safe to use the Time Machine because some of the files may be corrupted.
Is it safe to use my current HDD's to Time Machine or is it better starting off fresh?
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dippypants wrote:
So my HDD has lots of errors and it keeps dying.
I need to replace the SSD and I will soon but I'm not sure whether it's safe to use the Time Machine because some of the files may be corrupted.
Is it safe to use my current HDD's to Time Machine or is it better starting off fresh?
Err on the safe side and consider it corrupted.
If you have another EHD Drag and Drop what you can to it and then see if any of it is usable once you get your New Internal Drive installed.

Worst case scenario: Dead HDD, no backup. What can I do?

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Here's the thing: they won't get the replacement HDD until Wednesday, and they offered to attempt to get the data off my old HDD for $150. I said no, thinking I had made backup DVD+R's at home. Turns out, I really didn't
At this point, I would indeed have them try to salvage my data for $150, but the HDD is sitting here right next to me, and if I shake it I can hear something rattling around. I have memories of a broken spindle arm of a iPod. I'm thinking that this is not salvageable.
What do you guys think? I have until Wednesday, as they told me once the new HDD comes in, I have to give them the old one back. Can Apple indeed do it? What if they can't? Anyone else?
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Hi, sorry to hear about your problem. There are several ways you can try and recover your files. One way is to purchase a utility like DataRescue 2 that may be able to recover your information. The other is like was said before, have apple or someone else try and do it for you at a high price. One way that you may not have heard or tried (its very old) is to remove the hard drive from the macbook and put it in ziplock bag (make sure its well sealed) and then put the bag in you freezer for a while. Then remove the bag, and reinstall your hard drive, restart and try to copy the data from it to another hard disk. Here is a link to research this in google: http://www.google.com/search?q=harddisk+infreezer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Anyway good luck,and regards
gusg

Dead HDD, installing Yosemite from fresh.

Alright, here we go.
Recently, the HDD in my Mid 2012 Non Retina 13'' MBP, my hard drive died. I got the flashing question mark and whatnot, tried all solutions online to resurrect it, but to no avail.
I'm prepared to purchase a new drive, but the issue is, I need a Yosemite installer to reinstall the OS on the new drive. How do I go about downloading Yosemite to mount onto a USB for installation, if I don't have a working Mac to download it off the store with?
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Quit Disk Utility and choose to install OS X. The version of OS X your Mac came with will be installed. Which for your model, with be Lion, 10.7.x. Once that's installed, you can download and install Yosemite.

How can i get data off my dead hdd

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HDD dead. No OSX discs.

Hey,
So a few days ago I posted a thread in which I explained that I was experiencing some HDD issues, and that it could be a faulty SATA cable. I am now pretty sure it's actually a dead HDD. While the HDD was disappearing and reappering on Disk Utility just a couple of days ago, it has gotten harder and harder to find it. Now I've given up. It has just disappeared forever from Disk Utility.
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Can I change the PCB of my dead Toshiba HDD?

Hi
My toshiba hard disk is dead!
Can i change the pcb of my dead hdd for one pcb of a new hdd (similar to the old hdd) ?
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Pleas help me, i lost all my data.
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Trying to setup a Belkin N750 between Mac & Win 7 to share Itunes Library on an external HDD

Hello all,
Please excuse my complicated question. I really cannot fathom out how to resolve this technological nightmare. I have a 50gb Itunes Library stored on an External HDD in MAC format (HFS+) I want to share this library with the Windows 7 Laptop, i have enable home sharing on both computers. Sadly the Windows laptop cannot see the itunes library.
I have a Belkin N750 wireless router which has a USB port and LAN connections on the back. I bought this on the understanding i could plug my HDD into the router and it could then be accessed by both Mac and P.C. Annoyingly the HDD cannot be seen by either laptop! I am assuming this is because of the file format??
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Hello,
The iTunes library is installed and added to my Mac with no issues. I just want to share the whole library with a Windows laptop.
As mentioned the 'Enable home sharing' does not seem to work. I am assuming it is the file format of the HDD which means the home sharing cannot be done on a Mac?
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Well, i think i've hit a break wall...
It wont even recognize my internal HDD, it just has a flashing question mark (?) icon when i start the machine.....i've used Tech Tool Pro 4 and the Leopard start up disk, both with no luck, they don't even think a HDD is present at all.
I have pics of what i'm looking at:
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9631/26052010014.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/3278/26052010021.jpg
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Message was edited by: Matt-Beasley

You must use the original grey system DVD disc that came with your iMac to run the Apple Hardware Test, the one that is marked with instructions for running the test on it. Depending on the version of OS X that shipped with your iMac, this could be either disc 1 or disc 2.
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