Hi Everybody, thanks for letting me join your forum!
I could do with some experienced advice please. A month or two ago, the hard drive in my Mac Mini packed in, I booted up into disk utility, and it could see the hard drive but when I did a hardwear test it said that there was a problem with the mass storage device. I followed some instructions to replace the hard drive, with an 80Gb drive, which was successful, and I re-installed OSX Tiger and downloaded all of the software updates to get my mini back to normal.
Here is where I need you help with 2 things really -
1st - All of my music library in iTunes has gone, it is all on my iPod, but you cannot sync back to iTunes from your iPod. Or can you? Do any of you know if there is a way of cheating this rule in order to restore my iTunes library? I know that this exists to prevent file sharing, but I think that there should be some kind of exception for hard drive failures.
2nd - As disk utility could see the old hard drive, but I could not boot from it, I thought the data on it could be salvaged by using a file recovery software package. I bought an external firewire drive bay and plugged the old disk into it, connected it to my mini, and it saw the disk. I carried out a scan on the disk, but the trial version software kept crashing half way through the scan (the drive was getting really hot too). I am hoping that the OS section of the drive got bugged and the rest of the data will be there still (it had 18 months worth of photos & work stored on it). I want to use the old drive as an external back up if it still works, but I want to see if I can recover the data before I attempt to re-format it.
Any answers or solutions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter.
I could do with some experienced advice please. A month or two ago, the hard drive in my Mac Mini packed in, I booted up into disk utility, and it could see the hard drive but when I did a hardwear test it said that there was a problem with the mass storage device. I followed some instructions to replace the hard drive, with an 80Gb drive, which was successful, and I re-installed OSX Tiger and downloaded all of the software updates to get my mini back to normal.
Here is where I need you help with 2 things really -
1st - All of my music library in iTunes has gone, it is all on my iPod, but you cannot sync back to iTunes from your iPod. Or can you? Do any of you know if there is a way of cheating this rule in order to restore my iTunes library? I know that this exists to prevent file sharing, but I think that there should be some kind of exception for hard drive failures.
2nd - As disk utility could see the old hard drive, but I could not boot from it, I thought the data on it could be salvaged by using a file recovery software package. I bought an external firewire drive bay and plugged the old disk into it, connected it to my mini, and it saw the disk. I carried out a scan on the disk, but the trial version software kept crashing half way through the scan (the drive was getting really hot too). I am hoping that the OS section of the drive got bugged and the rest of the data will be there still (it had 18 months worth of photos & work stored on it). I want to use the old drive as an external back up if it still works, but I want to see if I can recover the data before I attempt to re-format it.
Any answers or solutions would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter.