Ok, so the back story of this all is that my friends iMac G3 seemed to suffer a nice HD failure. The bad side of this is that she never backed up any of her work from the past four years of school, and now before she graduates she needs to compile a portfolio of essay she's written over her 4 years in college. So, being the general Mac/PC expert, I offered my services. I disassembled the case and removed that HD and hooked it up to my iBook via an external enclosure. The drive spun up just fine, no irregular noises, but when plugged into my iBook nothing mounts and disk utility just hangs w/o displaying anything.
I tried hooking the whole deal up to my PC which is running Win2K Pro. Windows recognizes the firmware for the external enclosure, and the fact that the drive is a 60Gb Maxtor, but doesn't mount anything. I went into Disk Management under Administrative Tools and the disk shows up, but is not listed as being a disk but as Unknown. Windows also brings up the "Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard". I personally have no clue what that is, but I'm hoping some of you do.
Basically what I'm trying to achieve is to be able to mount the drive so I can pull off an image so hopefully I could get some/all of her files.
Any ideas??
I tried hooking the whole deal up to my PC which is running Win2K Pro. Windows recognizes the firmware for the external enclosure, and the fact that the drive is a 60Gb Maxtor, but doesn't mount anything. I went into Disk Management under Administrative Tools and the disk shows up, but is not listed as being a disk but as Unknown. Windows also brings up the "Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard". I personally have no clue what that is, but I'm hoping some of you do.
Basically what I'm trying to achieve is to be able to mount the drive so I can pull off an image so hopefully I could get some/all of her files.
Any ideas??
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