iBook's harddrive has kicked it

[Parkblue]

Al,

I have used and recommended (successful so far in every case) a guy in
Texas, far less expensive than data recovery companies but just as good.
(Disclaimer: no referral fees, no payola, no connection).

His 411:

Ray / Mobile Macintosh
833 Houston Street
Austin, TX  78756
512. 452.1113
(sorry, no e-mail on file)

Perhaps this helps -
-tobias.

PS: Haven't found an alternative to AppleCare yet - my 600 was just over a
year old when I bought it, so no AppleCare possible. I have yet to find
something else. Money probably well-spend.


on 25.08.03 09:00, Alric.J.Lam at Dartmouth.EDU (Alric J. Lam) wrote:



> Subject: [P1] iBook's harddrive has kicked it
> 
> Well, if my iBook is any indication of problems that other iBooks have seen
> before in high frequency (like screen problems, batteries dying, etc), then
> you
> 600 iBook owners should keep an eye on your hard drives, as mine decided today
> to die.  I was just using it for some light web surfing when all of a sudden
> the
> hard drive sounded like it didn't want to stop, or couldn't park the heads,
> all
> I heard was a clicky click sound.  I'm running through all the repair steps I
> can think of, Diskwarrior, running as a target disk, Disk Utility, but I get
> the
> feeling that none of these things are going to help with a physical problem
> with
> the hard drive, and my data is lost.  Thankfully I did a backup a little while
> ago, but I still lost data since my last backup.  So a word to the wise, back
> up
> regularly.  And fellow 600 ibook owners, keep an eye on that drive. (FYI, i
> had
> the bigger 30 gig put in at the time I bought it a year and a half ago.)
> 
> If anyone has suggestions on how I might be able to recover data from the
> drive,
> please let me know.  So far Diskwarrior hasn't recognized the drive, target
> driving hasn't worked, and I cant get into single user mode.  Trying Disk
> utility now, but I doubt that will work.
> 
> Al