Mac and LaCie drive hell..

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right, we have a lacie HD hub thing that the enclosure went bad. we have extracted the IDE (foxcon??) drive and have it plugged in with a USB-IDE converter and the macbook pro (10.4.11) has detected the drive and the data.

good times.

problem is the drive they want the data restored to lacie quadra d2 connected by FW800 they have given me crashed the MBP totally forcing a power off. now the drive is reporting as unformatted and unpartitioned, which is a problem as there was existing data on the drive. you cannot unmount via disk utility as it is apparently in use (not sure how if the mac cant see the data??)). im stumped, the only info i can find via the lacie site is to use a data recovery package and reformat.

bad times.
 
I take it you've tried Verify/Repaid disk on the corrupted Volume

I had a similar problem when running an old Hard Drive. Looked OK when mounted but when you tried to read the data it crashed totally.Repair option gave loads of errors and reported unable to repair..Bummer. Fortunately had backup, so the data got reloaded onto anew drive

Do you have access to a PC. You may be able to force the PC to mount the drive, as it
may see it as an unformatted disk. and allow you to mount it via Disk management.
Then run MacDisk on the PC to see if you can get at the data

http://www.macdisk.com/mden.php3

They do a demo version so you can see if it worth it.

After that it's the expensive data recovery bureau option
 
Chappers said:
I take it you've tried Verify/Repaid disk on the corrupted Volume

I had a similar problem when running an old Hard Drive. Looked OK when mounted but when you tried to read the data it crashed totally.Repair option gave loads of errors and reported unable to repair..Bummer. Fortunately had backup, so the data got reloaded onto anew drive

Do you have access to a PC. You may be able to force the PC to mount the drive, as it
may see it as an unformatted disk. and allow you to mount it via Disk management.
Then run MacDisk on the PC to see if you can get at the data

http://www.macdisk.com/mden.php3

They do a demo version so you can see if it worth it.

After that it's the expensive data recovery bureau option
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you dont get the option to repair/verify on the mac as it does not have an active partition.

ive plugged the drive into a PC and it shows up as uninitialised.

just tried the drive in another mac via usb and fw400 and it fails to detect it.
 
As both Mac and PC systems don't see the drive as having a partition, I don't think it's going to an easy option to get it fixed.

looks like it's the bureau option....unfortunatly
 
JasonRS said:
Why not just recover it from the backup?

Or do you not practice at work what you preach on here......:whistling:

;)
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ha. this drive is operated by a particular dept and is outside of our normal backup routine. not ideal no, they should be saving work to the network. however the mac users are a law to themselves sometimes.

thanks for the useful post though..
 
You can use unix commands like FSCK in single user mode on the macbook pro which might help.

ie

Switch it on whilst holding down [command] + to enter single user mode.

You will eventually be shown the command prompt eg ":/ root#"

Type "fsck -fy" {without the quotes!}

Type "reboot"

Not sure if this will help as it sounds like the whole thing is corrupted. I use STELLARPHEONIX on the Mac for drive recovery (it does PC drives too) and it is rather good. I think that they do a trial version so you could see if it works and then decide if the licence fee is worth less than the data!
 
cowasaki said:
Not sure if this will help as it sounds like the whole thing is corrupted. I use STELLARPHEONIX on the Mac for drive recovery (it does PC drives too) and it is rather good. I think that they do a trial version so you could see if it works and then decide if the licence fee is worth less than the data!
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+1 for Stellarpheonix. We use Recuva for day to day stuff but we have a license for Stellar for when someone really messes up. It's one of life's a** saving apps :)
 
its taking bloomin ages to do anything with this.. from boot up it takes about 40 mins to detect the drive (which is helpful if it crashes the mac). got data rescue 3 running on it at the moment, its detected it finally after leaving it to it for the afternoon.. just running a scan now which is also being incredibly slow.

maybe itll have some useful outcome by the time i get back from site tomorrow afternoon.

thanks for the useful replys guys :)
 
Were you able to recover much?
 
unfortunately i was out on site all day today, i did speak to one of my colleagues who said it hadnt progressed any further down the recovery process so i suspect the drive is completely screwed.. apparently the head of design who supplied the drive wasnt overly surprised.
 
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