Re: [PLUG] Data Salvage

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 10:31 AM 8/30/2001 -0400, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
>         As some of you know I gave my powerbook a bath earlier this week.

        That was silly of you ;).


> It was
> under warrenty so Apple sent me a new Keyboard, memory module and hard disk.

        Cool!!


> I can still spin up an access the HD a little, I can read some files via cat
> in single user mode but if I touch files in the tmp area the drive starts to
> click and sputter.  Is there a way I can bring this drive up and ignore the
> area that the crash is in just long enough to copy off my data and then send
> the drive back?

        Put the drive in an external enclosure (SCSI, USB or FireWire) and 
then access it as a secondary volume, so that you then only access the 
files you want and don't have to deal with the OS itself.


LDR


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