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Blazer
8 MB  Posts: 10  
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on: March 27, 2011, 00:02
Hi all! I have a Performa 6300CD that won't boot from the HD. It won't boot a OS 9 install CD, but it will boot a system 7 or 8 install CD. However, disk first aid and other tools show the HD as unmounted and "untitled" and unable to read from it .. disk error. Can't install either 7 or 8 due to the disk error message or a can't read/write the HD. Amy thoughts on what I could try to save the HD contents .... I did not want to reformat and lose everything  .... thanks for any help!!!
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Lichen Software
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128 MB Posts: 252 
Reply #1 on: March 27, 2011, 12:30
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The hard drives on these are IDE. If you have another computer that supports IDE drives and will take 2 of them, you take take this one and put it in as a second drive (slave jumper probably needed) and then use a disk program, Tech Tools? Anubis? Norton?, to try to force mount the drive and get the data off. It sounds like the drive is failing/failed. If it won't mount in that scenario, a tech friend of mine has had some luck either freezing the drive or cooling it drastically with an ice pack and then trying again. You have to be careful not to get condensation. Someone could perhaps chime in on this. Good luck
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24bit
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64 MB Posts: 91
Reply #2 on: March 27, 2011, 19:46
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Norton Utilities 4 and 5 fixed some disks for me in the past. You might try to boot from the Norton CD. Accessing the disk will always bear the risk of making things worse, on the other hand. I saw some interface converters for IDE to USB for about EUR 10. A GNU-Linux box should read HFS and HFS+. Maybe you can read out files that way.
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Blazer
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8 MB Posts: 10
Reply #3 on: April 24, 2011, 02:27
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thanks for the tips ... looks like the HD is a lost cause. I do have an external drive with system 7 on it so I can boot from there, but no luck reading the internal HD at all.
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