Ibook 800mhz hard drive recovery

I have a Ibook that is gone, long story but it got a martini bath, anyway - is there any devices that would allow me to plug the extracted ibook hardrive in as a USB or firewire drive? Like an external box i can plug the Ibook drive into and then plug it into another Imac? I want the data on the old drive. thanks for your time.
ibook g3 800, G5 imac, FTP imac, Pbook 15" Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Yes, you'll need an enclosure for a 2.5" drive. You can use either USB or Firewire, but if you want to be able to boot from it, go with Firewire (or a combination enclosure).
Here's an example: Macally 2.5" enclosure
USB-only enclosures are a little cheaper.
Obviously check the HD before you transfer it to make sure it's free of martini...
Matt

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Recomendations for Hard Drive recovery tool

Does any one have a recommendation for a Hard Drive recovery tool?
My brothers external Lacie 200MB Firewire drive has crapped out. He has all his family movies (iMovie projects) stored on it so he really needs to recover the files if possible.
I have the drive now and have hooked it up to my machines and it is definitely in bad shape. At this point I can see the drive in the finder, but it doesn't appear to contain any files or folders. It also shows up in Disk Utilities, but a Verify Disk doesn't reveal any problems (and running "Repair Disk" returned "No repairs were necessary, the volume seems to be OK").
At this point the disk just appears to be empty. I am running a deep scan with Stellar Phoenix right now. Any suggestions on the best OS X recovery tools.
Thanks
EDIT:
oh, and the disk appears to be formatted HFS+
I was thinking about yanking the drive and installing it internally to the ide bus - don't know if this would make a difference.

Well, that’s a lot of interesting advice.
The first thing to do is NOTHING! Don’t try heroic efforts until you’ve explored all the demonstrably non-destructive ones.
First of all, if the drive mounts, gives no errors from the Finder or from Disk Utility but appears to contain no files, then the likelihood that this is a symptom of a hardware error is very small. Moving the drive to different enclosures or trying to connect it internally is probably not advisable.
Are you cerrtain the drive was not simply re-initialized? That would be the simplest explanation for there being no files apparent. If that’s the case, then surely a majority of the contents are recoverable, BUT NOT IF YOU DO ANYTHING FURTHER WITH THE DRIVE.
If you have recovery software that’s specifically designed to recover files from a re-initialized volume, use that. If not and you cannot acquire such software, and if the data is valuable enough, then I strongly recommend that you use a commercial data recovery service.
Unfortunately, I cannot give you any specific recommendations for diagnostic and repair software—I’ve been away from Mac OS too long.
I know this is not very specific, and I’m sorry for that. I’ll keep an eye out in case you have other questions that I might be able to answer.
Good luck.
RRS
iMac 20" Core Duo; MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Advice about external hard drive recovery

Does anyone have experience or advice about external hard drive recovery?
I have a USB external drive that crashed during a power brownout, I couldn't mount the image at first but used Diskwarrior to rebuild it. Now I can see and navigate the drive but I am unable to pull many files off without the finder crashing. It would transfer about 130mb of 10gb then stay at that number and not progress past that amount.
Should I try a different recovery program or would removing the drive and placing it in another external drive enclosure solve something like this?
any help appreciated

When in DW there is a Preview to see the old and new volume.
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/topic4557.html#d10aug2010
Data Rescue 3 demo will show you what it's scan finds, costs $99
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
you need to have another drive to recover your files to.
Yes I would try another case, maybe the power brick was all that is now half-dead also
And you really need a UPS - never be w/o
http://pondini.org/OSX/UPS.html
MacBook Pro:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro

Hard Drive Recovery Process has been selected

One day, while playing a game online, the computer screen went black and a blue box appeared that said "Hard Drive Recovery Process has been selected Press Yes if you wish to continue " Also, there was NO which only shut the computer down. YES took me to a blue screen with recovery and troubleshooting options. At first, none of these worked, or stayed. Because the next time I used my computer I would get the same Hard Drive Recovery Process message and had to try various things to make it work. I did purchase a Windows 8.1 recovery flashdrive from Toshiba and attempted to install it. It took about 6 tries for it to completely install. However, after installing, I was unable to use the RESTART option to power off the computer as it would trigger the Hard Drive Recovery Process again ! Ugh ! Last night, I powered the laptop off using SHUT DOWN and in the morning, I got the Hard Drive Recovery Process screen again, much to my horror. I have Norton Internet Security and Anti Virus as well as I used Toshiba maintenance tasks and no problems were found. I would appreciate any information on troubleshooting and repairing this problem, if there is a solution. Thanks !!!!!

I did purchase a Windows 8.1 recovery flashdrive from Toshiba ... after installing .. it would trigger the Hard Drive Recovery Process again
The fact that the problem remains after restoring the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media means the software doesn't cause it.
The computer needs servicing.

IBook g4 hard drive replacement

Ibook g4 hard drive broken and will not work what model of hard drive etc does it use. Also will A back up G drive with snow leopard work ?? It is a USB hard drive.

iBooks can not use Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as it is for Intel procesors only.
You use an ata 2.5 inch drive and this link will give you an idea of the choices.
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Ne=5000&Ntt=2.5+hard+drive&Ntk=Prima ry&Ns=P_Price|0&N=6885
Also replacing the drive on an iBook G4 is considered a difficult task for the average user. Check this link to see how involved the procedure is.
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iBook_G4

IBook G4 800MHz, Hard Drive dissapears

Hello,
I've been searching on these discussions boards for a while now but can't find any clues to what's going on.
I just got my hands on an iBook G4 800Mhz who's owner explained how the Hard Drive just "died" one day and when he took it in to be looked it, they said the Hard Drive needed to be repaired.
It sounded like a simple task for me, so I switched the Hard Drive out with an apple 30GB HD I had laying around from a previous 1Gb iBook G4 I had laying around.
OSX installed properly but midway through the second update to 10.4.9 (after 1 restart) it stopped, froze and wouldn't do anything for 25 minutes.
So I powered it down and restarted the computer.
It had that Folder with the Question Mark on it flashing, so I restarted again, same thing.
I popped in my OSX 10.4.6 cd and booted off to check out the HD, at first it showed the HD as a grey disk icon with a "disc0s3" so i tried to install osx again doing a clean install (erase drive then install)
halfway through the installation it froze, I restarted and the hard drive was now gone. Everytime I went to Disk Utility it only showed the OSX CD I booted off.
After several restarts and half a pizza pie later, the hard drive was showing up again, so I am now again reinstalling OSX and doing it's updates.
Could this be a Logic Board problem? Or something far worst than a new Hard Drive?
The hard drive I'm using in it now is about 2-3 years old which I got in my G4 iBook 1GHz (which now lays in pieces on the floor, it's been broken for a long time now but I jsut can't bare to throw it out)
Should I spend the $$$ and buy a brand NEW Hard Drive?
Any opinions or hints would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
-kahloz
24" iMac 2.16GHz 256mb Vid Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Ok, here's some new information on what's going on.
After I saw that error earlier, I googled it up and zapped the pram which didn't do anything. I kept getting kernel panics as soon as it booted up on the grey screen with the grey apple.
I let the computer cool off for an hour and reinstalled osx, did the updates and sat in front of it waiting for it to crap out again; which happened about45 minutes later. The screen turned blue, I thought it was going to "sleep" mode but it just turned blue then dimmed.
Finally it was frozen and i forced it off and booted off the osx cd, and sure enough the HD Header was damaged. I repaired the disc with disk utility and rebooted straight into OSX.
This all leads me to believe it's a problem with the HD part on the MoBo itself which means I'll have to replace the whole thing
thoughts?

HELP w/iBook, New Hard Drive; OSX does not detect

couple of months ago, my ibook was acting up
I thought it was the Hard Drive... because at first, the position of the laptop affected it (it would like freeze, and all i had to do was stand the laptop up and then i'd be fine) so i thought it was hardware......
I checked the disk utility.....
and SMART was reporting serious errors......
so i felt it was the HD gone bad, after the many times of "banging" it around (nothing big tho)
and then......
it didnt start anymore
it would "freeze" and get error
so it was basically dead....
I FINALLY got a new Hard DRive for it and i was thrilled
I had CompUsa install it for me for $30....
I was gonna install osx myself.....
I picked it up
did the "Apple Hardware Test"
just to do it.....
everything checked out fine....... "Mass Storage - Passed"
I put the OS discs in and im clicking away "continue, etc"
it comes to the point where it asks me to choose a destination
a partition on the hard drive i presume......
and there's nothing there
my hard drive just isnt listed.....
I figured the hard drive just needed to be formatted......
aftere eventually realizing that there's a disk utility available during installation....
I thought i had figured it all out......
but upon opening the disc utility....
again, the utility did not detect the hard drive....
did CompUsa not plug the hard drive in right? is that even possible?
OR........
is the hard drive i bought not compatible?
I ordered from:https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/
who specialize in mac stuff.....
I bought my laptop early 2004, and according to the site, i should be fine...
I then figure out my laptop is a 2003 model? 800mhz, etc. but even then,
the site says all 2003 models are supported.....
ahh.....
why is OSX not detecting it?
I wanna format, partition, and have my ibook back for good.....
and why does my "apple hardware test" say that my mass storage system is fine?
I tried searching for solutions....
I read someone whom had a similar problem....
and it turned out it was an OSX problem, not hardware....
anyways...
I sure dont hope that's the case, since i already bought the new Hard Drive...
im so confused....
do i tell CompUsa they didnt install it "right"?
someone please help
thank you

I'm not sure why everyone's so fixated on the hard drive's partitioning and whatnot... that wouldn't have any relation to whether or not you could boot from the Mac OS X install disk. From the sounds of it, your problem is that you have no bootable system on the hard drive and can't boot from the Mac OS X install disk, correct?
If that's right, then the problems are very simple indeed. First, your machine may not meet the [Snow Leopard system requirements|http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html], thus can't boot from a SL install disk. If this is a 2008 MBP, that's unlikely.
Second, you could be using a bad disk. The most likely explanation, in my experience, is that you're using the gray disks that shipped with a different machine. You did say that it was a retail disk, though, so I'm assuming that's not it. You could also have a retail disk with a system that's too old. You [can't install an older system than what your Mac shipped with|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186]. That also doesn't seem likely if this is indeed a 2008 MacBook Pro. Or, perhaps the disk itself is defective.
The other possibility would be some kind of hardware problem, perhaps involving the optical drive.
One way to determine what's going on is to try booting with the gray disks that shipped with your machine. If you can't boot from those disks either, you're probably looking at an optical drive problem. If you can, try running [Apple Hardware Test|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509] to rule out other possible hardware problems.

Hard Drive recovery software

A few days ago my iBook started up to the blank apple logo screen and wouldn't go any further. The hard drive was also making very loud noises and sounded like it was spinning extra fast. I called Apple and because of the extended Logic Board warranty program I will be able to send it in for repairs even though it's no longer under warranty. What they told me though was to back up my files since they may have to erase the hard drive.
That's where the problem comes in...
I know it was a stupid thing to do but I never backed up my files. I have some stuff on this computer that I would really like to recover. I found that if I let it rest for long enough and unplugged the power source (leaving running only on the battery) it would start up very slowly every once in a while but every time I tried to copy the files it would freeze again and I would have to try again.
I decided to bring my laptop over to a friend's house who also has an apple computer (a macbook) to try and put it into target disk mode and transfer the files that way. When I plugged it into the macbook it said there was a problem reading the disk. I started disc utilities on the macbook and tried to use disk first aid to repair it. It took hours and finally, when it got to the end, it said it was unable to repair it (one of the things that came up was "Invalid Directory Item Count. It should be..." and then different numbers like "0 instead of 14" and "17 instead of 54") I thought that I would just have to do it the slow way and hope that one time it stays working long enough to copy them all. When I turned it on again, however, the blinking question mark folder icon came up meaning now it could no longer locate the hard drive. The thing is when I use target disc mode to plug it into the macbook it still recognizes that an external drive has been plugged in (in the disc first aid it shows up right next to the macbook internal drive and under info it knows how large the drive is, etc.) it just says that it can't read it (under SMART status it says "not supported").
So here's where my two questions come in:
1) I am unable to boot a disc using the "c" button while starting up. Does that mean that if I buy some sort of recovery software like DiscWarrior it won't even be able to start? I'd like to know because I don't want to spend $100 on software if it won't even be able to try to fix the problem.
2) If I send it in to Apple to get fixed, what are the chances that they'll clear the hard drive? Is it standard procedure to begin the repair or is it only a last resort? Also, does anyone think that the Logic Board is the problem or is it something else?

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
What version of the OS are you running (or trying to run) on it?
It sounds like it is quite possible that your hard drive is the problem, although it could be both the hard drive AND the logic board.
Some of the new logic boards are only Panther compatible, so if you are running 10.3 there is a better chance that they won't have to blank the drive (at least, that's what I was told). I was running Panther, and mine came back three times with the hard drive data intact. But you definitely can't count on it.
Try starting up this way, first in Safe Mode.
If the iBook is on, turn it off. Let it rest overnight (or at least several hours).
Pick it up in your left hand and squeeze the case to the left of the trackpad between your palm and left thumb.
Still squeezing, push the power button. Do not let up the pressure on the case.
As the startup chime is ending, hold down the Shift key. Keep holding it down until you see the Apple logo and the progress indicator that looks like a spinning gear. Then you can let up the Shift key, but DO NOT LET UP THE PRESSURE ON THE CASE.
If this works, you will see your normal desktop. When you do, shut down normally, still keeping pressure on the case. Once it is shut down, you can quit squeezing the case.
Allow the iBook to rest several hours before trying to start up in FireWire Target Disk Mode with your friend's MacBook as the Host computer and your iBook as the Target. Again, keep pressure on the case to the left of the trackpad as you attempt the FireWire transfer. Do not let up, or it will freeze again (if it has the logic board problem).
If it will not start up using this procedure, it is likely the hard drive at fault.

NB200 -00L stopped during the middle of formatting, can no longer use the hard drive recovery option

Hello,
NB200 -00L is the model
Power was down during the beginning of hard drive reformat,I had tried to press 0 (zero) during restart
I had also tried to press F8 during it restart, then choose repair option, but it kept rebooting itself in a loop with no error message.
I really would like to restore to the manufacturing settings.
I had my usb drive, but the system does not recognize the mirror image on my usb flash drive anymore.
Unfortunately, my model does not come with a dvd reader neither.
What are my options?

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Everything for that Canadian model is here.
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I don't understand what's happening. If you cannot boot from a flash drive with recovery media, it may be that the drive does not have the proper contents. You can remedy that by ordering a new flash drive from Toshiba.
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IBook G3 hard drive not recognized

I have a challenge for anyone. I have a ibook 366(clamshell) that is not recognizing the hd. It was working wonderfully one night I shut it down and the next day I get the flashing question mark. I've tried all of the normal stuff: zap pram, reset nvram tried to use command and s but it didn't go to the programmers screen and all the such. I can boot from a cd but none of the utilities see the hd. I have taken the hd out and connected it to a usb to ide cable that allows me to use it as an external drive and it is recognized without any problem on all of the other macs I connect it to and even on a pc (I know I said the bad word.)Does anyone have any clue what could be the issue. Every thing else seems to work fine. Just the hd is not being recognized. I even put in a different hd. I even formatted the drive using one of my macs that I only have 9.2.2 on and installed a os on it and it still didn't work. The hard drive worked fine and the os with all of its components seemed to be fine. I know it's an older system but it's something that I can let the kids play on and not be concerned with losing any of my files.
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Hard drive recovery and replacement

I have a T43 1875. The hard drive has gone out - can't access operating system, clicking sound, blue button doesn't work. I have obtained the set of boot, rescue and recovery disks and a new hard drive. I can follow the video to physically replace the hard drive. As I understand it, I just follow the instructions (including moving the CD drive to the first position) that came with the disks and follow the prompts and the new drive will be loaded as when it was a new computer. However, I thought I would first use the Rescue and recovery disk on the old drive to see if I could get some files used since my last backup. I can't find detailed instructions of what to expect from the rescue program and how to get the files if possible. Does someone have a link that would help? Thanks.

Restoring the OS will probably be the least of your problems This is not going to make you happy, unless you have one of the magic hard drives:
T43 - new hard drive
Z.
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Hard Drive Recovery Issue

my hp dv6 notebook hard drive has failed on me. so i ordered a new hard drive along with recovery disk from HP since i did not make one on my own. i installed the new hard drive along and started up the recovery disk and when everything is done i keep getting a message saying it unsuccefully installed. now everytime i turn my laptop on it just keeps restarting itself when it suppose to reach to log in screen. please help me.
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Sometimes it helps to prep the new hdd with Cyberlink Utility cd first. Download and Save the file. Once download is complete, put a blank cd in your drive and click the file to create a boot cd. Boot with this cd and wait until you get a green check mark indicating hdd is ready. Remove the cd , insert first Recovery Disk and restart the laptop.
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Hard Drive Recovery Not Working

Hi,
I just got a new hard drive for my HP Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7 after the original one crashed. I am using recovery discs I made when I first got the computer to reformat it. The beginning of the installation process goes great. It prompts me to put in all three CDs and all three CDs are installed. It then tells me to remove the third CD, and the next process involves installing drivers and software, I need to restart my computer, and in this next process, my computer will be restarted many times.
So I remove the third CD, press continue to restart the computer, the computer restarts...but brings me back to the same screen that it did when I first put in the new hard drive, "No boot data available, please insert recovery disc and press any key to continue". It did this a second time when I went through the same process again. Not sure where to go from here, and any help would be appreciated.

Hello jahebda2466,
I see that you are having a problem installing the operating system on a newly installed hard drive. I have some suggestions that may help with this issue.
You can try to take one of the memory sticks from the computer and try and reload the software. You can also re-seat the hard drive to make sure it is securely connected.
If you continue to have issues you can contact HP support for a standard set of recovery discs. Here is a link to the contact options for HP support.
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Iphoto package contents is separate from iphoto after hard drive recovery

I have moved some of my previous iphoto libraries to an external hard drive. It fell and was not usable and did nor want to open any of my fikes. It was rceovered and I've received it back. The package contents are now seperate from the iphoto icon's on the hard drive. If I want to open it, it asks me to upgrade to the new maverick's version iphoto library. I click upgrade but then it saus that my iphoto library needs recovery and that it will quit and relaunch by itself. If I press quit the whole process starts anew. What should I do to be able to view my iphoto library? Please please help!

Dear Larry. Unfortunately I have just copied all my old libraries to this external hard drive and was about to back it up when it fell. This was still the previous Iphoto app before I updated my mac to mavericks. I now run OS X 10.9.2. The folder in which I received back this hard drive shows: folder "2012 iphoto". In this folder all the package contents lies together with the older iphoto app. In other words, if I right click on the iphoto icon, there is no option to "show package content:, because I assume it is not in it and is seperated. I hope I explained this correctly?
If I now double click on the iphoto icon, iphoto starts up and it shows me the following message: "Your photo library will not be readable by previous versions of iPhoto after the upgrade. The upgrade process for very large libraries may take an hour or more to complete.". I then click upgrade, and the following message appears: " An inconsistency in your database has been detected. The application will now quit, relaunch, and restore your database to a consistent state. This may take some time." It only shows a tab with "quit". If I pres quit, iphoto closes and reopens with the first message showing again. This continues untill I choose the option to not upgrade...
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Brand new OS X Mountain Lion starts in grey screen login window doesn't know me verify passwords all jacked up says to get external hard drive recovery so I have to spend more moneyon my brand new computer or can I fix and safe boot

brand new OS X Mountain Lion Bought in November 2012 starts in grey screen login window doesn't know me, went to utility dIsk ,verify passwords all jacked up, I Engaged repair passwords then press verified Macintosh HD it said Macintosh HD is OK but repair disk button was still lit up and wanted me to make a recovery disk external hard drive and such,please tell me I can fix in safe boot..

The repair button is always clickable when you are on your Recovery partition, it's nothing to worry about. Do this instead.
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Then type passwd username with username being the username of your admin account
It will make you type the new password twice afterwards. From then you can boot into OSX as normal and use that account to fix the rest of your passwords.

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