[Cube] Re: Cube Emergency: Please Help

[t c k]

Perhaps DiskWarrior can help rescue things to the point where you can suck
the data out of the drive? My experiences with it since v2.1 are A+.

-tobias.



On 12.10.04 01:29 George Pepper <pep27 at mac.com> wrote:

> Subject: [Cube] Cube Emergency: Please Help
> 
> My hard drive is about to die.  I've heard that "whine" before, and it was
> just a few boots before the HD imploded upon itself [Different computer; not
> even mine].  This is the original HD the Cube came with, so I can't say I'm
> surprised. Anyway, I've managed to transfer everything out of the Cube to the
> Xserve EXCEPT MY MONUMENTALLY VAST iTUNES LIBRARY!  I logged on to the Cube
> from the Xserve via the AirPort and found the library, but it gets to a
> certain point and aborts because it says it can't locate certain data or
> something [I think that's because the directory starts out with an alias].
> Anyway, that taught me that the AirPort is too freaking slow, if nothing else,
> so I'm going to try putting my TiBook in Target Mode and use FireWire [It'll
> still take for... ever... because the library is so humongous].  Problem is,
> the directory starts out with a freaking ALIAS!  So what EXACTLY do I transfer
> over?  This is probably really simple and I just can't think because I'm fr
> eaking out at the HUNDREDS OF CD DOWNLOAD HOURS I put into this library, and
> I'd hate to have to do it all over again.
> 
> Or, is there some way to take the library out of the iPod?