so i have an external firewire drive, with 2 partitions on it. the other day i plugged my isight into the drive (having no fiwi ports left on my machine) and it worked fine (i'd done it before)... after a little while, the drive started making funny noises for a bit, and then a bit later (probably just the first time i tried to access it), the drive disconnected itself and i got the firewire error message.
so, i turned it off and on, plugged it back in... only one of the partitions mount. i've restarted, unplugged and replugged many times, no luck.
so, i went into disk utility, and it is there, but greyed out (unmounted)... i click mount and it does nothing. when i try to repair the unmounted disk, it gives me an error... i'd guess because it can't mount it or whatever.
i've since tried techtool pro 4 and tried the data recovery... "resurrect protected volume-scavenge volumes for data"... "nothing found"...
so, the question is, how likely is it that the data is still there? it's some pretty important stuff that i haven't gotten to back up yet (been busy moving and new job lately)... how much would it cost roughly to have a place recover the data for me (or at least try)?
any other help would be great... thanks!
so, i turned it off and on, plugged it back in... only one of the partitions mount. i've restarted, unplugged and replugged many times, no luck.
so, i went into disk utility, and it is there, but greyed out (unmounted)... i click mount and it does nothing. when i try to repair the unmounted disk, it gives me an error... i'd guess because it can't mount it or whatever.
i've since tried techtool pro 4 and tried the data recovery... "resurrect protected volume-scavenge volumes for data"... "nothing found"...
so, the question is, how likely is it that the data is still there? it's some pretty important stuff that i haven't gotten to back up yet (been busy moving and new job lately)... how much would it cost roughly to have a place recover the data for me (or at least try)?
any other help would be great... thanks!