Yes, you need to unmount the drive you're trying to recover from - the one connected via USB, in this case.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
DIY Hard Drive Repair?
- Thread starter 2A Batterie
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
So how can I unount the external drive that is connected to the Time Capsule? I opened up disk utility, but that TC nor the external appear in the DU window. I tried to simplify the equation by removing the TC, but my HD will not connect to my MB via FW nor USB. I also tried booting in safe mode. In both instances, the MB recognizes only the bootable partition of my HD but will not let me unmount or eject.
You can't, while it's connected to the Time Capsule. I'm not quite sure what's going on here - you're saying only 1 of the 3 partitions on the drive mounts, but only on the MB? That is very odd.
See, TC recognize and can read each of the three partitions. When I boot in safe mode on my PB G4, it can read all three partitions. On my MB, it only shows the bootable partition and doesn't show any of the files I have on it, although it still tells me that I've used up x amounts of GB.
Oh yeah, auto-mount and ddrescue aren't friends.
Oh yeah, this is handy too.
I had to create an /etc/fstab to prevent the toasted iPod from auto-magically mounting when I plug it in. After you have sudo'd, ummmmm, does Mac OS X have pico???? YES! It has a pico clone....good enough.
Type a line like the above
VOLUMENAME needs to be the name of the volume. If your volume has a space in it, replace the space with \040. My example above is for an iPod called "SAM'S IPOD". Special characters need to be replaced with \xxx where xxx is the ASCII code in octal. If you need help, give someone your volume name and we'll help you.
PARTITIONTYPE..... I dunno, I'm still "new" to Macs. I used to be a Linux guy.... someone else can help you on this. It's probably hfs if it's a regular Mac drive....... I doubt there's any harm in trying hfs, but if the world explodes, don't blame me.
Do that, and your ddrescue should work.
Am I forgetting anything guys?
Oh yeah, this is handy too.
Code:
hats-mac-pro:~ hat$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=SAM\047S\040IPOD none msdos ro,noautoI had to create an /etc/fstab to prevent the toasted iPod from auto-magically mounting when I plug it in. After you have sudo'd, ummmmm, does Mac OS X have pico???? YES! It has a pico clone....good enough.
Code:
sudo -i
pico /etc/fstabType a line like the above
Code:
LABEL=VOLUMENAME none PARTITIONTYPE ro,noautoVOLUMENAME needs to be the name of the volume. If your volume has a space in it, replace the space with \040. My example above is for an iPod called "SAM'S IPOD". Special characters need to be replaced with \xxx where xxx is the ASCII code in octal. If you need help, give someone your volume name and we'll help you.
PARTITIONTYPE..... I dunno, I'm still "new" to Macs. I used to be a Linux guy.... someone else can help you on this. It's probably hfs if it's a regular Mac drive....... I doubt there's any harm in trying hfs, but if the world explodes, don't blame me.
Do that, and your ddrescue should work.
Am I forgetting anything guys?
Then it says
and offers me some choices like ctrl+T to files and M-M Mac Format among others. What exactly should I do now?
Code:
File name to write: /etc/fstabSo I think I'm making some progress. I was getting frustrated with having to include TC in the whole equation so I attempted connecting my external HD straight to My MB. Luckily, this was one of the few times that the MB read the drive via USB, although it wouldn't show the contents of the three partitions. I entered a command in terminal to unmount the HD since DU wouldn't let me do it. Then I followed all of the commands from before and now I get this screen. Obviously it's doing something, although I don't know what. There is a "recovery" folder under my user name, and in 10 minutes the .img file is at 0kb, with the logfile being 18.2mb. My ipos, opos, and errsize are all at 4300 TB... what does this mean? Is it running slow?
Most importantly, will my G5.img be bootable or set up in a way that I can Migrate my apps? The most important thing for me is to be able to transfer my applications from this drive (the G5 clone that I am trying to save) onto my new MB.
Most importantly, will my G5.img be bootable or set up in a way that I can Migrate my apps? The most important thing for me is to be able to transfer my applications from this drive (the G5 clone that I am trying to save) onto my new MB.
Attachments
The image will definitely NOT be bootable. However, assuming it opens, you should be able to transfer over everything you need by navigating it like any other disk.
It looks like it's encountered a physical error on the disk - that's why it's not copying anything. All the bytes it's checked have failed with errors.
Looks like I'm almost SOL. I think I'm going to drop the HD in the freezer for a day and see if I can get any results. The HD is still under warranty so I'm going to send it back to WD for a replacement..... will they be able to tell if I froze it or not?
They do not care. Freezing a drive is SOP in trying to recover data, and it in no way damages the drive or your warrantee.
BTW, I know what you mean about Pro Tools and Plug ins being a PITA. I installed 4-5 the other day- took 20 minutes to do- and 3 flippin hours to register them. First you go to their site to register, they e-mail an validation code, which you put into your registered account, and that gives the unlock code. Man, they (Digidesign, IK, etc) must me major raving paranoids....
Yea. I'm going to Ziplock it twice, then put it in a shopping bag just to be safe. Hopefully 24 hours in the freezer will give the drive enough life so that I can transfer all of my apps and plug-ins.
So after freezing it for 24 hours, it still had the same hangups when I executed the dd if= function in the terminal. However, after 18 hours it was able to create a disk image of 67.11gb of the 67.8 total. However, many things will still not open. I'm assuming because the disk is damaged and couldn't properly transfer all of the material over properly. Grr. Anyhow, is there anyway to transfer some of the apps that are there? It is just a disk image so I can't use Migration Assistant, so are there any suggestions?