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Not booting after locking startup disk on only drive
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<blockquote data-quote="mr.sparkle" data-source="post: 1409898" data-attributes="member: 254938"><p>Yes if the drive is alive but it isn't for the faint hearted.</p><p></p><p>Here we go. </p><p></p><p>Burn a Finnix PPC disk on your Windoze machine.</p><p></p><p>Boot this CD on your mac. At the root prompt type 'ifconfig' to see the IP address. Then set a root password by typing 'passwd'.</p><p></p><p>Ok, now we have to mount the mac drive so you can see the contents. Type 'mount /dev/sda3 /mnt', if you don't receive any errors type 'ls /mnt' and check that you can see files in there. You can look for your specific files (if you like) with 'ls /mnt/Users/YOURUSERNAME'</p><p></p><p>If you can see them then the drive is alive and all we need to do now is get them from Windoze.</p><p></p><p>On your Windoze machine install WinSCP. It will open a two-pane file copy window, connect to root@IPADDRESS with the ip address and password from earlier. Once connected navigate the file system to /mnt/Users/YOURUSERNAME, select the files you want and copy them over.</p><p></p><p>Grab a cup of tea you're done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mr.sparkle, post: 1409898, member: 254938"] Yes if the drive is alive but it isn't for the faint hearted. Here we go. Burn a Finnix PPC disk on your Windoze machine. Boot this CD on your mac. At the root prompt type 'ifconfig' to see the IP address. Then set a root password by typing 'passwd'. Ok, now we have to mount the mac drive so you can see the contents. Type 'mount /dev/sda3 /mnt', if you don't receive any errors type 'ls /mnt' and check that you can see files in there. You can look for your specific files (if you like) with 'ls /mnt/Users/YOURUSERNAME' If you can see them then the drive is alive and all we need to do now is get them from Windoze. On your Windoze machine install WinSCP. It will open a two-pane file copy window, connect to root@IPADDRESS with the ip address and password from earlier. Once connected navigate the file system to /mnt/Users/YOURUSERNAME, select the files you want and copy them over. Grab a cup of tea you're done. [/QUOTE]
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