[G4] cant find harddrive

[jonseward at mindspring.com]

If you deliberately overwrote the drive with zeroes, it might be hosed and
unrecoverable.  The hardware should be 
recognizable by clicking on the Apple icon in the upper left screen, then
clicking the 'More Information' button, and 
the looking at your hardware configuration.  If the drive is physically
connected and spinning, it should be 
recognized as the specific manufactured object, and display how many free
bytes are on the disk.

Disk Warrior is good.  So is Tech Tool.  None of them may be able to bring
back data that was over written multiple 
times.  Perhaps a professional data recovery service could do this.  I
believe they charge several/many hundreds of 
dollars to do this and there is no guarantee they can resurrect the data.

Good luck





Original Message:
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From: O'Brien obgraph at hiwaay.net
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:59:52 -0600
To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
Subject: Re: [G4] cant find harddrive


On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:43:33 -0500, Win werner wrote:
> I think I erased it writing 00 over top - it does not come up on 
the desktop and I have no idea how to find it - and mayby restore 
data on it -

I'm not sure why the drive doesn't show-up on the Desktop -- erasing it, or
over-writing it shouldn't cause that. 
Launch Disk Utilities. Perhaps, it will see the drive. Maybe, the drive
directory is corrupted. Can you try Disk Warrior?


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O'Brien
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