{"id":469,"date":"2006-07-29T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T00:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/07\/2006_07_29_0822.php"},"modified":"2006-07-29T08:22:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T00:22:16","slug":"powerbook-status-and-other-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/29\/powerbook-status-and-other-stuff","title":{"rendered":"Powerbook status (and other stuff)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my second post from my blog&#8217;s web-interface since <em>God knows when<\/em>. I&#8217;m already missing Ecto. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m too <em>tamad<\/em> to install the Windows version.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s official (at least as far as I&#8217;m concered): the Powerbook&#8217;s hard disk has physical damage. The good news is that I was able to recover most of, if not all my important files. So now I&#8217;m not worried about having this unit serviced &#8211; they can do whatever they want with it.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<h2>The Concern<\/h2>\n<p>I was hesitant in having the unit repaired because of the fact that I couldn&#8217;t access the hard drive <em>at all<\/em> at &#8211; and couldn&#8217;t salvage any of my important files. <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_469_1('footnote_plugin_reference_469_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_469_1('footnote_plugin_reference_469_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_469_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_469_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">Whenever something bad happens to my system (wether on a PC or Mac) I tend to end up reformatting as a habit &#8211; of course only after I back everything up.<\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_469_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_469_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script> This fear, and need to back-up was from [Juan][]&#8217;s previous mishap from what was supposed to be a simple hard-disk upgrade. While I have no doubts that our Apple service centers have competent technicians, I&#8217;m also not surprised as to how they seem to <em>not care<\/em> about data loss.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that ultimately, they just focus on getting the hardware aspect of the service done by <em>any means necessary<\/em> &#8211; even if it meant losing data. Of course they&#8217;ll try to back your stuff up, but should something happen that is out of their standard contingecy protocols, I doubt that they&#8217;ll feel obligated to spend some extra service time to redo everything just to make sure you don&#8217;t lose your data.<\/p>\n<p>So I delayed the trip to the service center until I exhausted all avenues of getting my data back <em>myself.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Getting My Files Back<\/h2>\n<p>I <em>partially<\/em> retract my statement about the absence of Mac software that can bypass the famous <code>B-Tree<\/code> (or whatever the hell it&#8217;s called), and read data from a direct and exhaustive surface scan. Such software exists and, more importantly, works! Which is more than I can say from the other more popular disk utilities. But first, let me tell the story in the proper order.<\/p>\n<h3>Long Live the Older Generations<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m <em>sooo<\/em> glad I didn&#8217;t sell my 60GB iPod photo. Older Macs (non-Intel) cannot boot from <code>USB<\/code>, only <code>FireWire<\/code>; which can be quite a hassle since almost every goddamn preipheral being sold now uses <code>USB<\/code>. I had 3 drives that support <em>both<\/em> <code>USB<\/code> and <code>IEEE 1394<\/code> (FireWire), but imagine how pissed I was when I couldn&#8217;t boot from any of them! The enclosures indeed are sexy, but their chipset sucks! When I get enough cash, I&#8217;m replacing all my enclosures with something better.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, my girlfriend calls me up, was off early, and had the iPod with her; so I pass for her and went to her house for the cable. To hit two birds with one stone, she also grabbed the first season of Prison Break (which we haven&#8217;t seen, and which is awesome by the way) to watch while I tried fixing my &#8216;puter.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, I installed OS X on the iPod and booted from it.<\/p>\n<h3>Data Rescue<\/h3>\n<p>After failed attempts with <em>DiskUtility, DiskWarrior and TechTool Pro,<\/em> [<em>Data Rescue II,<\/em>][de] by Prosoft Engineering, saved my ass! It was able to scan, and <strong>not<\/strong> hang when it hit the bad blocks. The other apps wouldn&#8217;t continue when they hit those blocks. <em>Data Rescue<\/em> on the other hand, when hitting bad blocks, switches to a &#8220;slow search&#8221; on the blocks <em>around<\/em> it so it can continue the salvage.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of it all, it <em>was<\/em> able to detect the data in the hard disk. 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