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Help! am I doing something wrong?
I would like to use this hint to attempt to get back some bad data on my dvr's hard drive. It crapped out on me about a month ago. This sounds like the right tool, because the dvr hard drive is an unkown format an unreadable file system by my mac. (1GHz G4, OS 10.4)
Before I tried the bad drive (120GB), I installed a smaller working 10GB drive into my DVR and recorded a few minutes. Then I removed the drive and installed in my mac. I typed the command and 45 minutes later I had a 10GB disk image on my computer. OS X still couldn't mount it, though. I formatted the 10GB hard drive to "erase" the dvr contents, then used Excited I might have a fix for my bad drive, I installed it into my computer the next morning an repeated the command for the faulty 120GB drive. It qickly made a 10MB dmg file and the terminal said something like "input/output error" 77000 bytes read, 77000 bytes written, then it would freeze up my mouse with the spinning beach ball. I restarted my machine with a hard power off and back on and tried again. The same thing happened 3 more times, doing a hard power off and back on (this has now locked up my mac more times in 10 minutes than I have had in the 2+ years I owned it). The last time I let it go all night (still not done) and all day at work to see if maybe it is working, just not letting me multitask. I haven't been home yet to see. Any thoughts? When I first inserted the disk, OS X wanted to initialize the "new" hard drive, so the "bad" hard drife is somewhat functional.... |
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