[Helpdesk] External hard drive problem

[SUZANNE COOPER]

Rather than swamp everyone with a bunch of e-mails I'll take this 
opportunity to thank Vint and Scott for their help. Mac users have to 
be the most helpful people in the world!

On Jul 6, 2006, at 11:54 PM, zoom wrote:

> Describe what's happening or what is showing up as far as your faulty 
> drive is concerned.

Giuseppe. the drive was making a fairly loud high pitched "whirling" 
noise when I started my computer. The sound became less and less loud 
over a period of about 5 minutes. After than the sound was a high 
pitched buzz. The disk icon did not show up on my monitor. I thought my 
internal hard drive was making the noise. I disconnected the external 
drive and the noise stopped. I connected it to my iBook and it didn't 
make the noise but the icon didn't show up.

Sheesh, it's hard to describe a noise!!!!

>  I wouldn't run any disk repair software such as Techtools or 
> Diskwarrior until you recover the data.

I haven't run any, thank goodness.

>  Prosoft's Data rescue has worked well for me. Once the data is 
> recovered then you can run disk repair to try and save the hardware.

I've started reading about this. One review said " Restrain the urge to 
fix things. First ask, 'Is my life, project, job sunk without the 
information on that drive?' " While my life or my job (I work for 
myself) are not sunk several books in progress are definitely sunk!

Thanks for the help.
Suzanne


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Suzanne Cooper
http://www.suzannecooper.com
Misers aren't much fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.