I knew I mis-read something, thanksUmm, he said that his one-year warranty ended in August.
I knew I mis-read something, thanksUmm, he said that his one-year warranty ended in August.
I don't think it's a filesystem/logical issue. The drive sounds like it physically died, because the OP says the drive doesn't show up in Disk Utility when booted from the install disks.
Maybe, but he said it does show as "media" which suggests that it could be reformatted. I've seen this sort of behavior from drives with directory damage, though fortunately not often. This kind of damage can often be repaired with DiskWarrior.
In the beginning the OP said "After trying everything several times I once got it to show the size of the drive, but it said "unpartitioned". I have not been able to get it to show that again however." I thought Media was the optical drive.
I found the help topics on Apples website and have done everything, inserted the install DVD's and checked Disk Utility and it just shows a drive "Media" and says its 0 bytes in size. After trying everything several times I once got it to show the size of the drive, but it said "unpartitioned". I have not been able to get it to show that again however.
You could be right, but if I'd managed to rescue my data I'd sure try to reformat this drive. If Disk Utility simply can't find the drive then you know it's very likely a goner. If it can, it's more likely to be logical issue than a mechanical one.
The freezer thing sounds intriguing.
Did you throw up yet?
similar problem, my friend's drive died, i ripped it out of his notebook, placed it in a usb enclosure, ran diskwarrior, and it said it was too damaged to replace, and suggested looking at the preview disk and backing up what you needed. Now if it's under 10 meg, I can copy it over, usually as the same size as it was, but every file is corrupt, and if I open, say a pdf, in text edit, there is nothing there. Even when I copy it, it always gives me an error 36 "the finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "xxxxxxxx" could not be read or written. Larger files it just waits on the "estimating time to copy" prompt and I can't end the copy, have to restart Finder itself. Thoughts?
Of course it's a "hard drive failure," but what kind? A substantial majority of "hard drive failures" are logical, not mechanical in nature. So I simply cannot agree that running a drive recovery application on them is at all likely to make the problem worse.
If it is a mechanical failure, running anything on it has a good chance of making it worse.