Hard Drive failed - Trying to Use Data Rescue II
I am trying to recover some photos and videos of my first child's first 20 months alive. My MacBook crashed while I was checking my gmail one night. I have a friend's iBook G4 connected to my MacBook via FireWire right now and am trying to use Data Rescue II to possibly recover my photos and videos. I can live without everything else. When I use the install disc to boot up my MacBook, all the iBook is seeing is the install disc, not the hard drive. Why? and what am I doing wrong? Why can't I see/scan the hard drive, too? Do I have other options?
Thank you!
When I hook the FireWire up, should something automatically pop up on the iBook, showing me that it recognizes the MacBook is now connected?
The drive in the MacBook would mount like any other hard drive.
Is it still a possibility that it's the data cable, or is that pretty unlikely?
Given that Disk Utility in the installer disk won't see the drive, I think it most likely that the drive has failed, in which case Data Rescue will not be able to recover anything (it won't work if the drive won't even mount). Probably the only way you're going to be able to recover any files would be by sending the drive to a data recovery service, and those are very expensive.
You can try removing the drive and putting it in an external case or using a drive adapter like the NewerTech unit (whatever's least expensive). That would verify that the problem is the drive and not with the drive circuitry on the MacBook. If you have an Apple Store near you, often they can perform such a test at the Genius Bar which would save you from having to buy a case/adapter yourself.
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