Failing/Failed Harddrive - How can I access data?
The HDD in my Powerbook G4 is seriously failing and when checked with Disk Utility it says that I must backup what I can and replace it.
The computer won't boot and the drive is audibly shagged. The best I can do is boot to CD and use Disk Utility from there (where it tells me how broken my computer is). My computer gets an IP address when booted from CD and I can ping it from another computer but I cant access the user accounts as I normally can using \\ipaddress\username. This isn't too surprising really.
Does anyone know how I might be able to access my data?
Thanks
Chris
P.S. Please don't ask me if I've been taking regular backups over the last 2 years and as such might not have lost absolutely everything!
Does this sound like the a hard-drive that is accessible? If I connect it via Firewire disk mode I assume that my HDD will act like an external HDD attached to the 2nd machine?
Hi, Chris. That sounds like a hard drive that may be accessible on the same momentary and much-interrupted basis as it is now for a few more seconds, minutes, hours or days — there's no way to tell. You might get really lucky and have a chance to back all your files up in one attempt via FW Target Disk Mode, or you might get halfway through backing up the first file and have the drive quit for good. Or you might get part of your data backed up, but only in the course of a hundred restarts. All we can do is wish you luck and point out that given the uncertainty of the situation, you'd better begin the backup process with your most important files. Plan ahead, and have your highest-priority files listed.
Yes, in FWTDM the drive will appear as an external drive connected to the host Mac.
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