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I've got a 400 Mhz Powermac, and I had a 300GB Barracuda hard drive installed. I know that technically she can't take a drive that big, but I found a special driver which allowed me to split it into a couple partitions, all of which could be read by OS X. I was quite happy with this, but rather recently, I believe the drive has died (this is after about a year of rather mild use).
I didn't notice a steady degration of performance. The drive just stopped reading one morning.
There is a slight whining sound to the drive, and when I try to boot the mac up, I get the finder with a question mark symbol. I booted the mac up from a USB external hard drive, and it seemed to operate fine, although disk utility was not able to see the internal hard drive at all.
Is my hard drive toasted? Anything I can do? There aren't all that many files on it, but if things can be recovered with little effort, it would be a bonus.
I didn't notice a steady degration of performance. The drive just stopped reading one morning.
There is a slight whining sound to the drive, and when I try to boot the mac up, I get the finder with a question mark symbol. I booted the mac up from a USB external hard drive, and it seemed to operate fine, although disk utility was not able to see the internal hard drive at all.
Is my hard drive toasted? Anything I can do? There aren't all that many files on it, but if things can be recovered with little effort, it would be a bonus.