So yes, it's crashed, and disk utility can't fix it. Nothing can really fix it. Formatted for Mac (HFS). Anyone have something for recovery? I bought Stellar Phonix, but it seems to be very slow and dumb on the Mac, and now tech support is telling me I need to upgrade to the windows version to fix my drive. RRRR.
I always take posts like these as a sign it is time to backup my data... sorry man, hope you can get the stuff back.
Seriously, it's like we need a "Data Loss" sticky to make people remember... Right now I'm hoping DiskWarrior can help me when it finishes downloading.
What was wrong with it? Also, which version of Diskwarrior? My experience with it has been very spotty at best.
Diskwarrior 4. Apparently the directory tree was all shot up. I'm not sure why. Maybe you can help me with my next decision: Now that the drive works (and Disk Utility and DiskWarrior say it's all good), should I use it? Or do you think it will crash again soon? I'm looking for an experience opinion on little data, so I'm not going to blame you if it goes wrong
Did anything precipitate or precede the crash (software-wise), and was it making weird noises at the time? If the answers are yes and no respectively, then yes. Otherwise get a new one.
It wasn't making funny noises, I've been on the lookout for that. Odd thing is, I tried to swap drives, and the one I fixed didn't work. So I put the working one in, booted it, saw that it worked, then powered down to secure it. Then I closed up, booted again, and no drive recognition. I did some looking and figured it was the cable to the drive, so I made sure it was plugged in and, sure enough, I had jostled it. So I booted with the good drive. It booted fine. I tried the other drive, no recognition. SO I put the good one in, and now it doesn't recognize that either. Now it seems like I toasted the good drive (won't be seen by another mac as an external, or by DiskWarrior, and doesn't spin up when plugged in), and the other drive isn't recognized. So, I think it's a combination of a)me toasting the good drive somehow by plugging it in wrong and b) the HD ribbon being broken somewhere I can't see. Rrrrrrrr.
This just in: My friend who is a whiz at everything (no, really, he is) tells me I have a logic board problem that I caused myself by not plugging the drive in correctly. So take that way, if nothing else: Watch what the hell you're doing!!!!
Sorry to hear that. Though it seems unlikely you did any permanent damage to your logic board. If I was there, I could open it up, run some diagnostics, and tell you for sure, but I can't do it remotely.
Right now we're waiting a week to see if everything resets itself. Actually, first I'm testing to see if it will run Tiger off my external firewire drive. I am typing this on a blue 400mhz imac.
