On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:40:16 -0400, Meerkat1 wrote
(in article <student-03231A.11401604072008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> Thanks again to all who answered questions related to my daughters G4
> mirror door PowerMac and her disk drive. Here is the latest result.
>
> I decided to try one last start up utilizing a known good 10.3 start up
> dvd. This produced the same results as before (indefinitely spinning
> wheel). I decided to let it spin all night. It did with no results.
>
> I removed the hard drive and placed it in an external enclosure as was
> recommended here. I then connected it to my MacBook. One partition
> mounted (there are at least 3 partitions). The mounted partition's
> re****ted size is about 75 GB. The whole drive is 80 GB. Available space
> is shown as 23 GB. The mounted partition shown has only a few data files
> and a system 9.2 folder and can't possibly be that large (about 50GB).
>
> So my question is, is DiskWarrior worth trying? I would have to purchase
> it.
>
> I hope I am not being a pest.
>
> Meerkat1
Disk Warrior has limited ability to do partitions. It can, sometimes,
recover
a directory which was totally trashed. However, a better tool for that job
would be Data Rescue II, which I've used to recover files on systems DW
wouldn't touch. (Note that DW will often recover the whole volume on
systems
where DRII goes belly up; DW is by far the more useful. I mostly use DRII
when I'm desperate and nothing else has worked... and usually by that time
DRII won't work, either.)
Drive Genius, made by the same people who make DRII, can sometimes recover
volumes that DW can't. I usually try Apple's Disk Utility first (it's on
the
system disc) and then DW and then DG, and then, if all else fails, DRII.
Even
if DU works, I usually apply DW as well, as DW will fix things that DU
misses. (And vice versa.)
Any Mac tech who doesn't know DU backwards and forwards, and who doesn't
have
DW and at least one of Tech Tool Pro, DG, and DRII in his toolkit is
begging
for trouble. I personally don't use TTP, but that's a long story involving
my
upgrading from TTP 2 and Drive 10 to TTP 4. For reasons which no doubt
made
sense to them, the powers that be in TTP-land didn't feel like offering me
an
upgrade path. (Yes, TTP 2 and Drive 10 were both registered...) I bought
Drive Genius instead. (Hey, if I'm going to pay full price, I'll pay full
price to someone who _hasn't_ ****ed me over. Congrats on being Prosoft's
marketing department, Micromat. And, as I order utility software for the
company I work at, guess which company did _not_ get an order, and will
not
get one so long as I have anything to do with it. Bite me, Micromat.)
There
are those who have not (yet) been bitten by Micromat and who swear by TTP.
The product itself is fairly good. The customer service sucks big time.
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