Hello everyone
My iBook's hard drive failed yesterday, it won't boot normally. What I get is a flashing question mark. The night before, the hard drive suddenly started clicking alot and then the system crashed.
I have tried a few options to get to the drive, but the drive will not mount. Tried resetting the PRAM, booting up from a repair CD, using the 'x' key, and connecting the iBook by firewire as an external drive. It won't mount.
Does someone have any experience with this? Is using recovery software going to toast it even more? Is my only resort to send the drive to a restore service place? I'd like to get some files I didn't get the chance to backup, this happened so fast.
My iBook's hard drive failed yesterday, it won't boot normally. What I get is a flashing question mark. The night before, the hard drive suddenly started clicking alot and then the system crashed.
I have tried a few options to get to the drive, but the drive will not mount. Tried resetting the PRAM, booting up from a repair CD, using the 'x' key, and connecting the iBook by firewire as an external drive. It won't mount.
Does someone have any experience with this? Is using recovery software going to toast it even more? Is my only resort to send the drive to a restore service place? I'd like to get some files I didn't get the chance to backup, this happened so fast.
