Hey there, Macrumors. A few days ago, my western digital 640 GB blue scorpio notebook drive bit the dust. At first the drive would make a beeping noise and then it graduated into a scratching sound and eventually OS X would not start up and I was left with the apple icon and a spinning wheel underneath of it. I removed the drive and placed it into a rocketfish usb external enclosure for notebook drives. Afterwards I put a 200 gb notebook HD into my macbook pro and did a fresh install of snow leopard, and then upgraded to version 10.6.8.
Here in lies the problem. When I have the bum hd connected to my macbook and open up disk utility, it will read it about half the time and either show up as a 640 GB HD with Mac OS, or it will show up as a 640 GB HD with a disk named disk1. I can't access the files when it is read either way. Though, when I reboot with the drive connected by USB and hold the option key down OS X allows me to choose either my internal hard drive or the external labeled Mac OS. When I try to access the external busted drive I get the same problem with the apple icon and the spinning wheel.
Is there any way to get some files off this hard drive or am I just plain out of luck?
Here in lies the problem. When I have the bum hd connected to my macbook and open up disk utility, it will read it about half the time and either show up as a 640 GB HD with Mac OS, or it will show up as a 640 GB HD with a disk named disk1. I can't access the files when it is read either way. Though, when I reboot with the drive connected by USB and hold the option key down OS X allows me to choose either my internal hard drive or the external labeled Mac OS. When I try to access the external busted drive I get the same problem with the apple icon and the spinning wheel.
Is there any way to get some files off this hard drive or am I just plain out of luck?