Recent content by johnay3

I definitely do not have those resources, can you recommend a tech service, or a way for me to find a reputable one? Some things I have seen online are ontrackdatarecovery.com and drivesaversdatarecovery.com but I'm not sure if that is the right route or not. Thanks again for the quick and...

Is it at all possible that the disk won't mount because the iMac has a password protected login? Just curious because target disc mode would seem like an all too easy way to bypass the login.

No luck with that, eventually comes to the error - Disc Utility can't repair this disk.

No luck with the mount. I got a message saying "This disk needs to be repaired. Click repair disk." I clicked and it said "Volume repair complete." and "Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required." The blue status bar is chugging away... I will let it sit for a while and get...

Tried your first suggestion and I do in fact see the hard drive when I look in Disc Utility and System Profiler but not on my desktop (attaching some screen shots if it helps). Not sure about next steps though... Also, when it's in target disc mode is it best to just to do a hard restart again...

Thanks for the quick reply. I've actually tried Firewire with no luck. I may be doing it incorrectly. I have an 800/400 cable and connected iMac to my MacBook. Powered on iMac while holding "t", the Firewire icon appears on the iMac and bounces around, but the drive does not appear on my...

Came home from work the other day and my iMac (20" iMac from '07 / Snow Leopard) was frozen, did a hard restart and it booted up fine without much of a problem. Everything was running very sluggish so I began to verify the disc through utilities at which point it froze again, now whenever I...