Nagoya/Japan Macintosh Data Recovery
Ian J Cottee
(and preferably in the Nagoya area). Its to retrieve some data from a
friend's Mac's 80 GB HFS+ external drive (Buffalo) which seems to have
crashed big time.
So far I have
tried Disk FirstAid
tried Norton
tried DiskWarrior
tried VirtualLab (which may have found something but has currently
crashed, waiting for their help desk)
tried Linux on the PPC (doesn't support HFS+, trying a new kernel
next week)
So I want to avoid taking it to some outfit which will charge 50,000 Yen
for running Norton on it again and then saying there is nothing they can
do.
Recommendations and warnings all welcomed.
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Ian J Cottee
Nagoya, Japan
★Takechanman★
I found some company in web site. but Not cheap.
and their place of sales office are Tokyo area.
if you want to repair in Nagoya, do you try to take counsel near
electric shop ?
http://www.t-alpha.otsuka-shokai.co.jp/drecove/recover/form.htm
http://www.pc-recovery.net/
http://www.auinc.co.jp/backup.htm
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Takechanman in Japan
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> Has anybody got any recommendations for a data recovery company in Japan
> (and preferably in the Nagoya area). Its to retrieve some data from a
> friend's Mac's 80 GB HFS+ external drive (Buffalo) which seems to have
> crashed big time.
>
> So far I have
>
> tried Disk FirstAid
> tried Norton
> tried DiskWarrior
> tried VirtualLab (which may have found something but has currently
> crashed, waiting for their help desk)
> tried Linux on the PPC (doesn't support HFS+, trying a new kernel
> next week)
>
> So I want to avoid taking it to some outfit which will charge 50,000 Yen
> for running Norton on it again and then saying there is nothing they can
> do.
>
Compumart PC shop, near Nagoya station, seem to have some sort of 'computer
doctor' section on the 5th floor. So I wonder if the Compumart Mac shop
across the street has a similar set up.
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jonathan
Ian J Cottee
> Compumart PC shop, near Nagoya station, seem to have some sort of 'computer
> doctor' section on the 5th floor. So I wonder if the Compumart Mac shop
> across the street has a similar set up.
Thanks for the reply although I am happy to now report the good news
that Data Rescue X appears to be able to recover the files. It's only
$90 as well. If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' try it
out ... http://www.prosoftengineering.com. The demo will allow you to
try and detect the files before you buy.
Louise Bremner
> If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' ...
Whups.... Is that what happened? We're thinking of getting Panther
(having missed Jaguar by just a couple of days), but you've got me
worried about the firewire disk....
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Louise Bremner (log at gol dot com)
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Matthew Endo
> Ian J Cottee <i...@cottee.org> wrote:
>
> > If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' ...
>
> Whups.... Is that what happened? We're thinking of getting Panther
> (having missed Jaguar by just a couple of days), but you've got me
> worried about the firewire disk....
Louise, you need to check out Macintouch:
http://www.macintouch.com/panfirewire.html#nov17
and general reports on Panther
http://www.macintouch.com/panreader.html
Written sincerely from a
Blue and White G3 450 Mhz with System 9.1,
--
Matt
ma...@gol.com
Louise Bremner
> > > If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' ...
> >
> > Whups.... Is that what happened? We're thinking of getting Panther
> > (having missed Jaguar by just a couple of days), but you've got me
> > worried about the firewire disk....
>
> Louise, you need to check out Macintouch:
>
> http://www.macintouch.com/panfirewire.html#nov17
So it's only some of them? I see that I/O Data isn't listed, so I'd
better go check (a) whether they've noticed there's a problem and (b)
whether they've done something about it if there is....
>
> and general reports on Panther
>
> http://www.macintouch.com/panreader.html
Thanks. I've been aware there was some problems from the TidBITs list,
but hadn't read further.
>
> Written sincerely from a
> Blue and White G3 450 Mhz with System 9.1,
I'm still using OS 9.2 on my work G4 (since NisusWriter hasn't yet been
completely rewritten for OSX), but we need OSX for the Internet eMac and
some applications don't even run on this "elderly" version 10.1.5. The
Firewire hard disk is usually attached to the G4 as continuous backup,
but it sometimes gets moved to the eMac for transferring large files
(such as my photos).
Ian J Cottee
> Ian J Cottee <i...@cottee.org> wrote:
>
> > If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' ...
>
> Whups.... Is that what happened? We're thinking of getting Panther
> (having missed Jaguar by just a couple of days), but you've got me
> worried about the firewire disk....
It is (was) a known problem. It's only affects certain chipsets and
there is a fix on the Apple web site. However, that is not a lot of use
if you don't know about it beforehand.
I have no idea if this disk was the result of such a thing (the chap who
owned it said not) but the symptoms and resolution fitted. But suffice
to say - if you install Jaguar, unplug the firewire drive and don't plug
it in again until you have the system updates.
I like Panther although I can't say it seems much more of an advance
from Jaguar. The best thing I did last week was get rid of the god awful
Japanese default keyboard that came with my iMac and bought something
with a bit of tactfile feedback and the control keys in the right
place. Oh - and compiling a proper Carbon emacs with an Aqua
i/face. Heaven.
Louise Bremner
> > > If anyone else got their firewire disks 'Panthered' ...
> >
> > Whups.... Is that what happened? We're thinking of getting Panther
> > (having missed Jaguar by just a couple of days), but you've got me
> > worried about the firewire disk....
>
> It is (was) a known problem. It's only affects certain chipsets and
> there is a fix on the Apple web site. However, that is not a lot of use
> if you don't know about it beforehand.
>
> I have no idea if this disk was the result of such a thing (the chap who
> owned it said not) but the symptoms and resolution fitted. But suffice
> to say - if you install Jaguar, unplug the firewire drive and don't plug
^^^^^^ Panther?
> it in again until you have the system updates.
(or make sure it never gets used on the Panther-ized machine, of
course.)
>
> I like Panther although I can't say it seems much more of an advance
> from Jaguar.
Ah, but it would be a huge advance over the pre-Jaguar OSX we're using.
> The best thing I did last week was get rid of the god awful
> Japanese default keyboard that came with my iMac...
One advantage of buying through Apple Shop is you can specify the US
keyboard, but it's still pretty lousy....