nostalgia buffs

[John Allan]

> Here's a puzzle for Mac nostalgia buffs=85 A friend of mine, for years
> has happily been using a beige Mac G3, and OS 8.6. All her apps and
> data are storedd on the internal 40 MB hard drive


The questions is valid and could affect any Mac with an HD [ which is most,
let's face it ].

Sometime this happens simply because the System Folder is unblessed and
needs to be blessed again but in this case something deeper has happened.

It *could* be a dead HD but if it is still spinning, there may still be
hope.

Disk Warrior [ DW ] would be most tech's first choice over Norton and if
that cannot do it the only other option would be to use Data Rescue.

The good news is that Data Rescue [ DR ]is available as a free demo
download.

I'd install a system, DW, DR and Norton onto a second HD; the nice thing
about the Beige G3 that it could be either a SCSI or an IDE, internal or
external.

Boot from it then get to work on the damaged HD in that order DW, DR and
then if you are lucky Norton. Sometimes just passing DR over an HD brings it
back the data back to life, if you get some, back it up quick.

The is a chance that the HD is still fine and just needs a low level format.
For a shop, it is not worth them nor you spending 2 or more hours to do so [
... and they don¹t care a monkey's about her data and will smugly reminder
her that she should have backed it all up ] and so it is cheaper to fit a
new HD. But if time is available where cash is not, data precious and she is
cool to hang out with for a few hours, then this is the way to go. DR is
great.

Sometime just reinstalling new drivers helps. Once you have it back to life,
partition it and separate your Data from your System Folder. In most
occasion, you can blow up a System partition but leave all other free from
damage which makes restoration much easier.

John