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Hard drive wont mount - extrenal

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Name: shigysan_1987
Date: February 24, 2007 at 04:58:38 Pacific
OS: OSX 10.4.8
CPU/Ram: 1GB
Product: Apple G4 PowerBook
Comment:

Hey,
I recently changed my internal hard drive in my G4
PowerBook as it sounded on the way out - the sound of
hard drive wiring tooo it death. However, once i had
replaced the hard drive in my G4 i brought an external
firewire hard drive case. I have been using this as extra
storge and has served me well, even tho there has been
the occastional wining of the hard drive i have become so
use too.
Anyway, recently my hard drive has failed to mount on
boot up and any attemp to mount, fix or check the status
of the hard drive using disk utility or disk warroir has
ended up in the individual programmes frezzing up!
I suspect this is due to the hard drive havin more that one
foot in the grave know and is surly dead!
However, in one last atempt to bring life back to the
device i ask you for any help on my prediciment. Have i
over looked an soloution to bring life back to the hard
drive.

Thanks

J



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Response Number 1
Name: Golfer
Date: February 24, 2007 at 20:50:42 Pacific
Reply:

As you plug in the external, put your ear up to the case, can
you hear the hard drive spin up?

One oldie trick is to put the hard drive in the freezer for a
while. Then plug it in and if it mounts, quickly get all the
data off of it you need.


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