20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
8:33 p.m.
Teo Zenios wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: ancient mac disk warrior ?
Utilities
This is the only mac that I have, a friend has a modern mac which
I'm guessing doesn't even have a floppy...
I have to admit a fair amount of mac ignorance. Would the tools
mentioned likely be able to recover files from the disk?
--tnx
--tom
I have a
mac powerbook 150 circa 1994 which was an odd beast for apple
at the time as it used an IDE drive to help reduce the cost. I have
been using this machine to run MIDI recording software until recently
when the hard drive has had some sort of failure, either software or
hardware, I'm not sure which yet. The result is that when the machine
attempts to boot, it does not recognize the formatting on the disk. I
would like to try to recover the data (if possible) before re-formatting
the drive, and I've heard that a program call disk warrior might be
the solution. Does anyone have any comments or suggestions on this?
--tnx
--tom
For that vintage of a Mac I'd look at the right version of Norton for the OS you're running or maybe a suitably
old copy of TechTool. As
DiskWarrior is only on V3, I don't think it is old enough to support a
PowerBook 150.
Zane
I have a boxed copy of Central Points Mactools pro V4 that supports the 150.
There are (6) 1.44MB HD disks in the box. I can image the disks if you have
another Mac that can turn them back into floppies.