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I am not going to recommend a Mac to anyone
Guy brought over a non-bootable iMac.
He did not care so much if I could fix it as he did about his (of course) not backed up data. Popped it in my Linux machine as a 2nd drive and immediately got a SMART error. I could read the drive for a few minutes but the machine locked up before I could retrieve anything. The Mac apparently just happily booted up fine until the drive failed. Though I have little sympathy for those who do not bother to back up ... one would think that a Mac should at least give you a failing drive warning. |
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I am not going to recommend a Mac to anyone
philo wrote:
Guy brought over a non-bootable iMac. He did not care so much if I could fix it as he did about his (of course) not backed up data. Popped it in my Linux machine as a 2nd drive and immediately got a SMART error. I could read the drive for a few minutes but the machine locked up before I could retrieve anything. The Mac apparently just happily booted up fine until the drive failed. Though I have little sympathy for those who do not bother to back up ... one would think that a Mac should at least give you a failing drive warning. There are probably third party SMART tools. http://maxwell.sourceforge.net/ The SmartMonTools referenced there, would be the same ones that Linux uses on occasion. ******* Mac users hang out in Mac web forums, where they will learn about best practices. For example, there is at least one third-party tool for disks which is considered a "must-have". The tools that come with the Mac are not enough. ******* You could slave the drive to your technician machine and use "ddrescue". That's the utility that skips over bad blocks. The utility receives honorable mention at the end of this article. This utility is file system agnostic, and the idea is to just copy as many sectors as possible, using multiple applications of the program. The log file it keeps, keeps track of what it has captured. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk Paul |
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I am not going to recommend a Mac to anyone
On 09/05/2015 05:21 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote: Guy brought over a non-bootable iMac. He did not care so much if I could fix it as he did about his (of course) not backed up data. Popped it in my Linux machine as a 2nd drive and immediately got a SMART error. *** You could slave the drive to your technician machine and use "ddrescue". That's the utility that skips over bad blocks. The utility receives honorable mention at the end of this article. This utility is file system agnostic, and the idea is to just copy as many sectors as possible, using multiple applications of the program. The log file it keeps, keeps track of what it has captured. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk Paul yep but too bad Mac does not have something equiv. to the familiar BIOS message Anyway the guy said there was nothing important on it...mainly uses it for email |
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