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handy for fixing machines
Authored by: eagle_eyes on Apr 02, '02 12:48:06PM

When you have a mac (with firewire of course) that will not boot it will most often still work in target disk mode making it possible to either fix the harddrive or at least back it up. The only down side is that at times the harddrive map is in such bad shape that you have to boot to OS 9 (on the working machine) to get it to recogize anything.



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handy for fixing machines
Authored by: serres on Apr 02, '02 06:36:15PM

as i bought defective ram and after three days i had some unresolvable errors on my filesystem i made a complete disk image with disk copy (make image from drive, use format DVD/CD master) before running any hard disk recovery tools. i think it might even be possible to mount the image and try the recovery on the image instead of the original drive.



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