 Os X Disaster Recovery From Powerbook, Oh help this suxors |
  Thu 18 Aug 2005, 21:20
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I have the elusive blinking folder on boot with my power book running OS X 3.9 with a question mark. I was on the road to Denver working on a track for an artist I am engineering, I had about 7 tracks going and opened up the Sampler in Logic Pro. It froze, after waiting about a half hour I shut the notebook down. When I rebooted I was in OS X hell. I need to recover this song, I am assuming it’s a bad hard drive. I know there is a way to hook a fire wire drive up and boot the machine to do a complete backup. Before I troubleshot the notebook to see if I can fix it I need to do the data recovery. Any help with the recovery and repair would be absolutely helpful.
Thanks, -Dino |
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Wed 24 Aug 2005, 13:33
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dino,
I have never heard of using Target disk mode to automatically copy files to an external firewire drive without another mac in the mix. From KBase article # 58583 it states: QUOTE How to use FireWire target disk mode Important: Unplug all other FireWire devices from both computers prior to using FireWire target disk mode. Do not plug in any FireWire devices until after you have disconnected the two computers from each other, or have stopped using target disk mode. I would try again by booting your powerbook into target disk mode (hold down T during boot until you get the bouncing firewire icon) and then connect it to another mac to see if your hard drive mounts. If it does, try to repair the disk again using the latest version of Disc Utility (v.10.5.1) or Disk Warrior (about $90 from Alsoft) to repair your directory and possibly recover your drive. The only time that an "automatic" copy of files takes place from Target disk mode is when your machine is in target disk mode connected to a Mac with Mac OS X v10.3.5 or later and you have just installed a fresh OS onto the drive. This is accomplished with the Migration Assistant utility and it is meant to save time in setting up a new machine, not necessarily recovering a failed one. Hope this helps. peace, deacon -------------------- |
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dinofond Os X Disaster Recovery From Powerbook Thu 18 Aug 2005, 21:20
gdoubleyou Boot from the system CD, and attempt to repair you... Fri 19 Aug 2005, 16:57 dinofond If I only had the system CD, the guy I bought this... Fri 19 Aug 2005, 19:08 banevt If you have access to another computer you can try... Fri 19 Aug 2005, 19:13 dinofond It helps big time, I have a firewire drive so I wi... Fri 19 Aug 2005, 20:20 dinofond Well I tried this several times. All I have is a f... Fri 19 Aug 2005, 22:54 banevt When you do this you still need another mac to do ... Sat 20 Aug 2005, 10:30 editbrain boot the computer holding command-s
it will boot y... Sun 21 Aug 2005, 00:13 dinofond According to apples tech support database holding ... Tue 23 Aug 2005, 18:30
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