recover data from mac drive with ext. usb case?

[ftechguy]

I have an old beige G3 running OS 9 that no longer boots (gets the question mark on startup. When booting from CD, disk first aid can see drive and detect errors, but cannot do repair). Since I know the disk is still physically working, can I pull it out, put it in a usb enclosure, connect it to a modern os X mac and access data on it? This works on PCs but I've never tried it yet on a Mac. Will this work?
Can anybody give any feedback?
Thanks!

 

[jimoblak]

This is what I would do but you never know until you try.

You may find any data transfer unbearably slow with the USB1 connection in the Mac but anything is better than losing your data.

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[PeteWeedon]

Don't know about this newfangled OS9 and such, I'm still trying to get up to speed on System 7.5.3!

With the older OS I have sometimes had to juggle things to persuade the disk from which I was trying to recover data that it wasn't the start-up disk anymore.

Just a thought ...

Best regards,

Pete W.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - you haven't seen the latest Change Note!

 

[ftechguy]

Well I was able to mount the disk and view the folder listings, but opening any folder resulted in the dreaded SBOD.
Ah well, most of it was backed up at least.