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R.I.P. Maxtor
Well, Disc Utility is seeing it but can’t recover it, Data Rescu and Disk Warrior ain’t seeing it, does’t work on either my G4 or G5 and it sometimes is making that ticking sound, so I guess I’m SOL, right?
Anybody know of a not expensive recovery service?
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[Chris Poisson] “Anybody know of a not expensive recovery service?”
Sorry, inexpensive data recovery in an oxymoron…
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If you really need the data then you will be willing to pay the price to recover it.
Or course if you don’t really wnat to spend any money on it then prehaps you may not consider the data worth recovering.
Tony Salgado
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Hey Tony,
Ya know, there’s a lab that does this here in Phoenix, it runs around $1400 – $2500. For that kind of money I’d be better off rebuilding anything lost. But there was nothing on there I need that bad.
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it’s weird that disk utility sees it and not Diskwarrior.
Sometimes failing HDs work while they are cold and then fail again when they get warmer. But in case of a loud clicking noise, then it often doesn’t matter.
but anyway, if you choose to try to recover it yourself, shut down the computer for an hour or two, boot it again, load DW immediately and hurry up copying important data. It has worked for me in the past.
and btw, it’s probably a coincidence, but i’ve seen many 250gb maxtor failing…
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I’ve been told a last-ditch effort is to put the HD in a freezer, stick it back in the machine, and hope you can get any bits off.
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Interesting, I’ll try the cool down idea. thanks.
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Try attaching the drive to an OS 9 system.
When my first LaCie 500GB drive died (a LaCie drive die? what?! 😉 ) I was able to get everything off by connecting the drive to an OS 9 system.
When my second LaCie 500GB drive died, I had prepared enough to deal with it.
I had a total of three LaCie 500GB drives, two are dead, the third is still going (with a fan pointed at it 24/7) but I will replace it before it goes on its down.
— Wes Plate
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In the freezer, I’d be wary of condensation. But I *did* put one in the fridge once. I’m not sure if it helps much more than just letting it cool down to room temperature, tho.
And it’s also only useful when the drive is having problems reading (I/O errors).
Chris, have you installed the Diskwarrior daemon that monitors the SMART status? This is a really useful utlity… it can *predict* failures before they happen. I had a drive which was running perfectly well but had a SMART error. I called Maxtor and they assured me that the drive was going to fail. I probably saved myself a nightmare or two by replacing it before it failed…
The moral of the story: run the Diskwarriror daemon.
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Its also an excellent way to test the old theory to see if your tongue will really stick to frozen metal. Its a complete bunch of hogwash, your tongue won’t really stick. You should try it yourself just to prove it…
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Aren’t those fanless drive quiet and convenient?
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