External drive won't show

[Jimish]

My PowerBook G4 crashed and I need data from it (I know I know)... I already had bought an external drive and had begun loading some fotos and music. Now I'm at a friend's Mac, firewired and all, and the external drive (visible in the disk utility) isn't to be found.

I don't want to erase and reformat, obviously, ... can I drag it onto the desktop from the disk utility?

 

[Denarius]

My PowerBook G4 crashed and I need data from it (I know I know)... I already had bought an external drive and had begun loading some fotos and music. Now I'm at a friend's Mac, firewired and all, and the external drive (visible in the disk utility) isn't to be found.

I don't want to erase and reformat, obviously, ... can I drag it onto the desktop from the disk utility?

Do you have the repair option available in Disk Utility?

 

[spinnerlys]

Can you mount it via Disk Utility or repair it?

If not, there is a software called Data Rescue 3 (99USD), which will be able to restore the files onto another HDD, if the PowerBooks's HDD has no physical damage of course.

 

[Jimish]

Do you have the repair option available in Disk Utility?

Thanks for diving in Denarius

(At the tabs for Info, First Aid, Erase, Partition and RAID. This is the "Thar be dragons" realm of the computer for me...)

In the First Aid tab, only the Verify Disk button is dark, the Repair Disk button is gray (as are the 2 Permissions buttons)

 

[Jimish]

Can you mount it via Disk Utility or repair it?

If not, there is a software called Data Rescue 3 (99USD), which will be able to restore the files onto another HDD, if the PowerBooks's HDD has no physical damage of course.

An Apple Genius poked around and saw no evidence of a harddrive malfunction, said it was software not hardware

 

[Jimish]

Can you mount it via Disk Utility or repair it?

And I don't know how to mount it via Disk Utility

 

[spinnerlys]

And I don't know how to mount it via Disk Utility

See the MOUNT icon in the toolbar? Select the volume on the HDD on the left side and click that MOUNT icon.


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Thanks for diving in Denarius

(At the tabs for Info, First Aid, Erase, Partition and RAID. This is the "Thar be dragons" realm of the computer for me...)

In the First Aid tab, only the Verify Disk button is dark, the Repair Disk button is gray (as are the 2 Permissions buttons)

An Apple Genius poked around and saw no evidence of a harddrive malfunction, said it was software not hardware

And I don't know how to mount it via Disk Utility

 

[Jimish]

See the MOUNT icon in the toolbar? Select the volume on the HDD on the left side and click that MOUNT icon.

Repair under way... so it says. And I found the Mount function... will those things impair the data on there already?

 

[spinnerlys]

Repair under way... so it says. And I found the Mount function... will those things impair the data on there already?

What things?

Mounting - no.

Disk Repair - I don't know, it will just try to repair it. See what it reports.
If all fails, no data is lost anyway. Unless the damage is physical.

 

[Jimish]

What things?

Mounting - no.

Disk Repair - I don't know, it will just try to repair it. See what it reports.
If all fails, no data is lost anyway. Unless the damage is physical.

"Repair completed"

I'll mount it now.... I don't think that came out right.

So far, nothing

UPDATE: and still nothing

UPDATE: and I'm out