Ok, right now I am working on an iMac G4 800MHz and the system will not boot off of the OS installed. The OS is 10.3 and I am getting reports of the disk showing tha Keys are out of order. What does this mean, and will Norton or command line utilities fix this. The drive will not mount and I need help with this ASAP. Please help me with this!
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DiskWarrior absolutely rules for this kind of problem.
You can try booting in single-user mode and running fsck, but my guess is you need DiskWarrior.
As for Norton, personally I won't get anywhere near it.
Matt
I am actually using DiskWarrior as we speak (I am so glad I bought all these tools, as it helps in last minute situations.) I am actually working on my brothers computer. DiskWarrior is chugging away (albeit, very slowly.)
When I ran Norton, It quit on me as soon as I clicked the "Examine" button. I have actually had Norton save my butt a few times, because the Disk Warrior App did not allow me to do some stuff that I need in Norton's features. I am not really impartial to any Recovery program, as one has something I need that the other does not have. Norton also helps in support of SCSI disks on old machines (pre-PPC)
So, I just take what comes at me with what-ever tool that works
My personal favourite app is spinrite, avaliable from www.grc.com. Ive yet to find a better disk repair program.
DiskWarrior was not able to fix the drive. My brother is now in Single-User Mode trying to access a USB HD and move stuff to that.
does anybody know how to run fsck manually? what are the commands and flags associated with the command
upon reboot hold down command+s, then let it load to the black screen with all of the writing and when it is finished type fsck -yf, or fsck -y, or fsck -f.
This is where Norton comes in... I have formatted the drive (not Low-Level) and erased the directory. I am going to use Norton File Recovery to retrieve the files one-by-one. That means that I will be going through, by hand, and looking and opening every file I can see, to see what it is. I was hoping that wouldn't come to this, but...
I will be up all night on this one. Hopefully I can do this...
I am able to recover ~99% of the files. I am using Norton UnErase. This is why Norton has saved my butt sooo many times. I have no other programs that I can afford, that recovers and resurrects (ressurects? not sure how it is spelled) Mac volumes. I have a free utility on the PC that lets me recover files from even ntfs Volumes!! If anyone wants to know what it is, PM me and I will let you know. Or, I can just post where to get the program late, as I am not at my PC Right now
And this is the final one...
The controller board on the Hard Drive is toast. The disk will no longer mount on any system. I now longer see any lights on my external disk enclosure light up when it is time to read the disk. My brother will have is friend turn the disk's into a Metallic rose by using pliers to bend the disks into rose petals.
Second...
I was going to post about the Disk recovery app.
This is the app:
The Windows application is called "PC Inspector. It made by a division of CONVAR. The software is considered freeware and is what the Company uses to run their file recovery business.
The Url to the company website is below:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Once again, this is freeware, and has helped me recover files for my costumers/clients.
It will work with even NTFS filesytems. The nice thing is that it is reliable on retrieving stuff and I think it is the best one I have used in my years of doing computer maintnance and PC resurection.
I recommend this to anyone who needs to do filesystem recovery and other recovery.
Good-Day.
Coius
AKA Pete LeDoux
pledoux@gmail.com