I have a 100-gigabyte Ultra ATA hard disk drive manufactured by Maxtor but purchased as a ClubMac external FireWire hard disk drive from a few years ago. It is a Maxtor 536DX 5400 RPM hard disk drive, model #4W100H6, manufactured 07 July 2001.
It has been working fine, but one day it decided not to boot up anymore. Ironically, this occurred while I was in the process of backing up files from that drive.
Whenever I attempt to boot up the hard disk drive, an alert message appears stating:
Disk Warrior also sees it but will not let me do anything with it. I get a message which states:
In TechTool Pro 4, it passes the Disc Controller and Read Write tests with no problems. It is not recognized to perform a SMART test. I can initiate a Surface Scan in TechTool Pro 4 but then it hangs, along with the hard disk drive. I must perform a Force Quit in order to leave the application, and I also must turn off the power of the hard disk drive and turn it on again. It is obviously not recognized under any other areas in TechTool Pro 4.
Neither Data Rescue X nor File Salvage recognizes the hard disk drive at all.
In the Disk Utility software, although it does not see any volumes on the hard disk drive, I can partition the drive by simply locking it using the Locked for editing button.
Then, if I want only one partition and I click on the partition button, an alert warns me:
Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect there is a bad block preventing the volume directory from being read. The hard disk drive seems to operate fine physically, and I suspect that if I initialize it, the hard disk drive will work fine but then I lose all of the files that were on it.
My Dual 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 computer is operating under Mac OS X version 10.2.8 with 1 gigabyte of RAM, although the disk is not recognized by my 400 MHz PowerPC blue-and-white G3 operating Mac OS 9.2.2.
I went to an Apple Store, and the person at the Genius Bar told me they do not provide that type of service.
If I can just extract the remaining files from that hard disk drive, I can then re-intialize it. I will then be happy.
Thank you in advance for any tips, ideas and suggestions.
It has been working fine, but one day it decided not to boot up anymore. Ironically, this occurred while I was in the process of backing up files from that drive.
Whenever I attempt to boot up the hard disk drive, an alert message appears stating:
Apples Disk Utility application recognizes it and gives me the option to intialize it, but it does not recognize any volume. I cannot use any of the functions in First Aid.
Disk Warrior also sees it but will not let me do anything with it. I get a message which states:
SpeedTools sees it but will not allow me to mount it.Directory cannot be rebuilt because... trying to access this disk:3, ::4).
In TechTool Pro 4, it passes the Disc Controller and Read Write tests with no problems. It is not recognized to perform a SMART test. I can initiate a Surface Scan in TechTool Pro 4 but then it hangs, along with the hard disk drive. I must perform a Force Quit in order to leave the application, and I also must turn off the power of the hard disk drive and turn it on again. It is obviously not recognized under any other areas in TechTool Pro 4.
Neither Data Rescue X nor File Salvage recognizes the hard disk drive at all.
In the Disk Utility software, although it does not see any volumes on the hard disk drive, I can partition the drive by simply locking it using the Locked for editing button.
Then, if I want only one partition and I click on the partition button, an alert warns me:
If I choose to click on the Partition button after receiving this warning, will it erase all of the data on my hard disk drive as well as the now-Untitled volume, or will it allow me to simply erase the existing volume and create a new volume while keeping the data?
Perhaps I am wrong, but I suspect there is a bad block preventing the volume directory from being read. The hard disk drive seems to operate fine physically, and I suspect that if I initialize it, the hard disk drive will work fine but then I lose all of the files that were on it.
My Dual 1.42 GHz PowerPC G4 computer is operating under Mac OS X version 10.2.8 with 1 gigabyte of RAM, although the disk is not recognized by my 400 MHz PowerPC blue-and-white G3 operating Mac OS 9.2.2.
I went to an Apple Store, and the person at the Genius Bar told me they do not provide that type of service.
If I can just extract the remaining files from that hard disk drive, I can then re-intialize it. I will then be happy.
Thank you in advance for any tips, ideas and suggestions.