- #MAC HDD RECOVERY SOFTWARE CANNOT MOUNT HOW TO#
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I have since replaced the original HDD (which I was keeping as a emergency backup, phew) and put the problem HDD in an external FW enclosure. It has served me well for slightly over a year, and is only now giving me this problem. I took the HDD from an off-the-shelf 2.5" external HDD. I should give you a little background: Mine is a MacBook White early 2009, with upgraded 4GB RAM & 500GB 5400rpm Fujitsu HDD. When I did so, my startup disk wouldn't mount. I couldn't Force-Quit anything or do a soft restart, so I decided to just power-cycle restart (pressing the power button until it shut down, then pressing it again to start up). I was surfing this site a couple of days ago when my MacBook suddenly froze up.
#MAC HDD RECOVERY SOFTWARE CANNOT MOUNT HOW TO#
This guy here shows you how to do swap all the parts.but even he says not to, and he is a "professional".granted a professional that want you to buy his services.I have a problem. There are ways to get the data.if you have the right tools and skills.and correct parts. They can get it to read all the sectors and skip bad ones.
#MAC HDD RECOVERY SOFTWARE CANNOT MOUNT SOFTWARE#
Recovery places usually use specialized software to force the drive to do what they want. Once the PCB does something bad to the drive, putting the old one on will not fix it. You take a big risk swapping PCB boards and there really isn't any point because that is 99.9% not the issue with your drive. There were so many hidden kbase articles about hard drive firmware issues it wasn't funny. Most are just stock with an Apple specific driver, but some are modified for whatever reason. Apple drives are really a whole other beast because of Apples unnecessary tinkering. In non-Apple labeled drives, these things aren't as big of a deal. If you replace the PCB and the software assumes something is in a certain place, the act of it attempting to correct it could corrupt the drive. So you can't really tell what kind of strange things Apple has going on.and they don't document them. I must have done at least 100 of these repairs. This is in the kbase as "don't tell customer, replace both components under warranty even if non-Apple. When the 3rd party items came in, the computer assumed they were the same. The Apple drive and the IDE controller were fine on their own because they both had this glitch.
#MAC HDD RECOVERY SOFTWARE CANNOT MOUNT CODE#
The code was so poorly written it would leave RAM chips unreadable. When someone replaced the drive with a third party drive and third party ram, both new devices became damaged and had to be replaced.
#MAC HDD RECOVERY SOFTWARE CANNOT MOUNT DRIVER#
The PowerBook G4 (Titanium) had a specific driver and firmware for the hard drive that had issues due to a poor programming. For example, here is a publicly undocumented Apple thing. 9/10 times you won't have an is that one time you need to worry about. Apple likes to use custom firmware and mismatching boards can cause serious problems. Doesn't matter if it is sitting idle or connected. It contains everything the drive need to function properly. The firmware is the software for the hard drive. There is no way you and I could get the aligned. There is a tiny strand of wire that hovers above the platter like a record player. Not possible not matter how hard you try. These things have to be just so many microns above the patters. One spec of dust can destroy a head if it hits it the right way. If you had a clean room, robots, and precise instruments.maybe. The heads and stack, as it is called, can not be replaced or swapped. You will only be able to get the Apple drive from another iMac. I wouldn't waste any time on that theory. Usually the drive just fails if it is a PCB issue. Pick the wrong one and it may just totally render the data useless. Even if it were you can very rarely find the correct model and firmware to match. The sound you are hearing is the head resetting to the last known location and trying to find the spot it needs to read next, which it can't.repeat about 10 times a second. The head has damaged the surface or the surface has otherwise been damaged. You may be able to recover some item if you avoid system files and take items off (copy) one at a time. It sounds like it may be a file accessed during startup or something that is the issue. In order to read the data you need to avoid the area that causes the problem.
#MAC HDD RECOVERY SOFTWARE CANNOT MOUNT MAC#
What you can try is just connecting the drive to another Mac inside a usb drive case.or put the iMac in target disk mode (if it supports it). Click to expand.It is not going to be the PCB board.