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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: peedog on Nov 29, '04 01:57:41PM

That's an excellent strategy to recover data from a hard drive heading south. Mounting with the read only option set prevents or delays the prospect of a drive crashing because of a write action taken by the system, which is beyond the user's control. I use this frequently in Linux. On the Mac, however, have you learned how to disable the service which automatically attempts to mount attached devices (in a read-write manner)? Then you could shut down the computer, attach a device, and mount it yourself manually.



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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: soumyeah on Nov 29, '04 02:30:45PM

can i use Target Disk Mode to recover data from an internal HD that is not the boot disk? I have a G4 desktop and recently the internalHD i use for storage, which has worked well for a year+, no longer mountes. Diskwarrior and similar programs seem unable to help due to a corrupt filesystem (a failing PRAm battery may have led to this corruption).
When i hook it up to a G4 ibook in Target Disk Mode, only the boot drive shows on the ibook...
how can i access and recover data from the extra internal HD?
any help would be greatly appreciated!
patrick



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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: szabesz on Nov 30, '04 07:19:23AM

Borrow (or buy) a FireWire Drive kit, so that you can pud your HD in it in order to have an external drive instead.
I do not know much about extra internal drives, but my iBook's  combo drive works well on the host machine while using the iBook in Target Disk Mode.



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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: szabesz on Nov 30, '04 07:27:05AM

I have also read this tip several times. Though I have never tested it, I recommend to perform the whole procedure in a cool and dry environment. Taking cold objects to a warm room generates water drops on the objects's surface and you risk making more damage to the HD than you have had before putting it in the freezer....



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Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode
Authored by: szabesz on Nov 30, '04 07:32:22AM

sorry, I have missed it :)



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