Tekserve HD Crash

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I have a 80GB HD from Tekserve with a Mac Partition on it. I used it
under Mac OS three years ago, but since then I always used it with
MacDrive under Windows as a storage/backup device. I don't own a Mac.
The drive worked fine for three years, but it finally crashed.
Now, every time I plug into the IEEE controller under windows, my pc
displays a short message on a blue screen (under Windows2000), which I
am not able to read, because it disappears after half a second and then
the PC reboots itself. It will eventually do this in a loop. I went to
Tekserve and they tried to access it under MacOS, but they get an error
message as well-bad sectors etc.
Now, I have some picture scans of my photographs-35mm-on it, as well as
other stuff, which I would like to retrieve. Especially the scans are a
lot of work. Is there a way to access that drive or retrieve the files.
Please help!!!

Thanks!!!
 
njhilite said:
I have a 80GB HD from Tekserve with a Mac Partition on it. I used it
under Mac OS three years ago, but since then I always used it with
MacDrive under Windows as a storage/backup device. I don't own a Mac.
The drive worked fine for three years, but it finally crashed.
Now, every time I plug into the IEEE controller under windows, my pc
displays a short message on a blue screen (under Windows2000), which I
am not able to read, because it disappears after half a second and then
the PC reboots itself. It will eventually do this in a loop. I went to
Tekserve and they tried to access it under MacOS, but they get an error
message as well-bad sectors etc.
Now, I have some picture scans of my photographs-35mm-on it, as well as
other stuff, which I would like to retrieve. Especially the scans are a
lot of work. Is there a way to access that drive or retrieve the files.
Please help!!!

Thanks!!!
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Nothing under windows that I know of will allow you to get to that
Mac-formatted partition. Frankly, if MacDrive can't access it, I suspect
it is toasted. Perhaps mounting it on a Mac might allow access to some
of the data. OTOH, drives are not normally hot-plug devices, which
might be the source of the error. You should plug the drive in before
booting.

To change the error behavior, go to System Properties, Advanced Tab,
Error handling and uncheck the box for automatically restarting on error.

Q
 
Previously njhilite said:
I have a 80GB HD from Tekserve with a Mac Partition on it. I used it
under Mac OS three years ago, but since then I always used it with
MacDrive under Windows as a storage/backup device. I don't own a Mac.
The drive worked fine for three years, but it finally crashed.
Now, every time I plug into the IEEE controller under windows, my pc
displays a short message on a blue screen (under Windows2000), which I
am not able to read, because it disappears after half a second and then
the PC reboots itself. It will eventually do this in a loop. I went to
Tekserve and they tried to access it under MacOS, but they get an error
message as well-bad sectors etc.
Now, I have some picture scans of my photographs-35mm-on it, as well as
other stuff, which I would like to retrieve. Especially the scans are a
lot of work. Is there a way to access that drive or retrieve the files.
Please help!!!
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Sounds like a case for professional data recovery. Many will give you a
price-quote for free. You can then decide whether you rather pay or
rather recreate the data from an other source.

Arno
 
Quaoar said:
Nothing under windows that I know of will allow you to get to that
Mac-formatted partition. Frankly, if MacDrive can't access it, I suspect
it is toasted. Perhaps mounting it on a Mac might allow access to some
of the data. OTOH, drives are not normally hot-plug devices, which
might be the source of the error. You should plug the drive in before
booting.

To change the error behavior, go to System Properties, Advanced Tab,
Error handling and uncheck the box for automatically restarting on error.

Q
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Have a look at one of the Macintosh software vendor sites...it's been so
long I do not recall the names off hand. See if you can find a file
recovery program for whatever file system your disk is using. The Mac
once had the HFS (Hierarchal File System), but that was abandoned at
some point for one of the Unix/Linux formats (I could be all wet about
this!)

Q
 
The program I developing www.cnwrecovery.com does support Mac Drives on
a PC, but I have never to date seen a Mac partition on a Windows hard
drive, so there may be issues. If it does not work directly with the
Mac partition, a Image scan will recover all Jpegs etc as files.

Michael
 
The program I developing www.cnwrecovery.com does support Mac Drives on
a PC, but I have never to date seen a Mac partition on a Windows hard
drive, so there may be issues. If it does not work directly with the
Mac partition, a Image scan will recover all Jpegs etc as files.

Michael
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Thanks Michael:

The only problem is that the HD crashes under windows. When I turn on
the external HD, the PC just crashes. A message appears for a nano
second...something with memory etc..Then the pc shuts down. It restarts
to do the same again. If I don't turn the external HD off, it will do
that in a loop.

Thanks.
 
Can't you just boot into Knoppix (or possibly BARTPe) and see what is on the
drive from there?????? or am i being too simplistic?
 
You mention a IEEE controller - is this a Firewire controller? Have
you tried a USB controller? Personally, I have always found USB much
more firendly, and never had them crash my PC - just sometimes hang it
for a period of time.

Michael
 
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