I've tried replacing the reading heads, and NO - a smudge on the plate is death to the data... Your best bet is to take it to a data recovery service who'll charge you nearly $1200 for the task. But if it's priceless data, it's worth the cost.. :( -b On 11/22/04 7:20 PM, "Michael Keeley" <mikeeley@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
If it makes you feel any better (and it won't), I had the same thing happen to me about a month ago with the 1 TB Lacie; they advised me to use the Data Rescue utility (http://www.prosoftengineering.com) which seems to be doing the trick as far as getting my data back, but I'm left with the unenviable job of backing up some 600 GB of data on DVD-R, 4 GB's at a time. You might download the trial version just to see if it'll work.
Regards,
Michael
On Nov 22, 2004, at 2:11 PM, orb-request@mailman.xmission.com wrote:
Message: 10 Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:59:32 -0500 (EST) From: gel-sol@gel-sol.com Subject: RE: [Orb] ot hard drive death To: 0rb@bi11i.com, "What were the skies like when you were young?" <orb@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <17527.216.49.69.74.1101160772.squirrel@webmail.gearboxx.com> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
hmmm...well that sucks. I totally took this drive apart, including the 3 discs that make up the drive...being that you can;t just pull them out real easily, the discs had smudges on them and I tried to wipe them off with a cloth for cleaning eyeglasses....do you think my discs are fucked? I assumed they were roughly like cd's, where you can get dust on them, but you can wipe them off to insure clean playback/files...
I was going to buy an identical drive and use the read/write heads from the new drive, but the nature of the way the drive is built doesn't make it easy to keep things perfectly clean.
Thanks for all the advice...turns out my bandmate's friend does repairs at the apple store here, so we'll prolly ask him if theres anything we can do.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com