El Presidente
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I have a 160GB firewire hard drive. The power went out a couple of weeks ago, and coincidentally my firewire hard drive stopped working! I mean the 2 partitions mount ont the desktop, but it brings my system to a total halt when I try to browse the drive. I have tried fixing this with disk utility, techtool and diskwarrior, but I am pretty sure it is physically damaged. I got an error in diskwarrior saying that it was slowed due to a hard drive malfunction. In disk utility I got some other error that was a hard drive error.
Well I have managed to recover a tiny bit of the data. I had all my mp3s on there, and I'd really like to get them back. Basically I copied a few folders but it was really slow. I tried copying the whole music folder but it brought my system to a crawl and i quit. Basically it totally stalls the finder with the beachball when I try to do anything.
Is there any other way that I might be able to get the data back? Is there a special way to mount the drive so that it won't be sooooo slow even though it's damaged? Is there a read only mode that might make it faster??? I already bought another drive and I'm going to buy a UPS Power Supply so that this doesn't happen again!
Any ideas would be appreciated...
Well I have managed to recover a tiny bit of the data. I had all my mp3s on there, and I'd really like to get them back. Basically I copied a few folders but it was really slow. I tried copying the whole music folder but it brought my system to a crawl and i quit. Basically it totally stalls the finder with the beachball when I try to do anything.
Is there any other way that I might be able to get the data back? Is there a special way to mount the drive so that it won't be sooooo slow even though it's damaged? Is there a read only mode that might make it faster??? I already bought another drive and I'm going to buy a UPS Power Supply so that this doesn't happen again!
Any ideas would be appreciated...