Image a Crashed Mac Disk

[ben1234zz]

Hi

We are used to recovering Windows Hard Drives when they fail using Acronis True Image to take a disk image which does a great job on disks that we thought were unusable (with other backup / imaging products).

A friend has a mac that we would like to recover the disk by imaging it - does Acronis work to restore Macs? Or is there a better solution?

Any advice would be much apreciated.

Thanks B

 

[twiSSt]

Did your friend try Disk Repair in the Dick Utilities?

Take a look at this

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050302225659382

If you have access to another Mac you can try connecting them with a Firewire cable and boot the failed box in target disk mode (hold down the T key on boot)

Disk Warrior may also be a good choice to attempt to recover the drive.

Not sure about Acronis.

Twist

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[chiph]

Acronis does not currently know how to read a HFS+ filesystem.

Chip H.



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[jmgalvin]

Have you tried to repair with Disk Utility, in Hard drive/Applications/Utilities?

To try a repair, you will have to boot the Mac from the software install cd/dvd that came with the machine or any OSX install disk.

Disk Utility also has the ability to create disk images, as well as quite a few other tricks.




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[ben1234zz]

Hi

Thank you all for your posts.

Are any of these bootable products, ideally I would like to put the disk in one of our IBM PC machines and run the clone from a boot disk. Is this possible?

Thanks

B

 

[twiSSt]

You are not going to be able to run any of these solutions from an IBM or any other PC for that matter. OS X is fairly hardware specific and while it can be made to run on a PC with considerable effort it is not worth the effort.

All of the suggestions given can be done from the OS X install CD or DVD, providing the owner has the original. If not hopefully they can find one that works with their version of X.

You didn't mention what model Mac it is or what Version of the OS so it is hard to say whether you will need a specific disc for a specific computer.

Twist

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Everything will be OK in the end.
If it's not OK, then it's not the end

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Have you had a look at Spinrite v6 from

http://www.grc.com

?

It is supposed to be able to handle any drive format, BUT the software has to be run from a PC so the disk has to be removed from the Mac and hooked up to the PC.

It claims to do rather a lot and is a tiny app. I use it just to check over my disks from time to time.

Hope it's of some help!

Neil

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[bithead9]

I would pull the HDD from the mac and put in another mac as secondary HDD. The run Carbon copy cloner to a third HDD. It is a great free utility that will copy everything. Good luck!

 

[ben1234zz]

Hi

Thanks all for your posts.

I starting running spinrite on it just after posting this message, its still running, but am hopeing for some good results.

Out of interest will carbon copy cloner work if the disk cannot be mounted by the OS, as we have tried mounting it with no luck.

Regards

B

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Let us know how spinrite goes, looks like you are putting it under a proper test!


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