So I got this hard drive from a good friend who is completely and irrationally anti Micro$oft and they even run OS X 10.4.? I think it's 10.4.5 or better, but it is the old Motorola G4 chip if that even matters. In any case she has a dead hard drive and her irrational confidence in all things Apple (I am not anti Apple it really comes out though when I deal with her), of course she never used Time Machine or thought there would ever be any need for backups on a 3-5 year WD old hard drive. Of course since it is an Apple, like many folks she doesn't know enough about her own OS to do anything truly useful but she is desperate to retrieve these files.
It's a WD 400GB SATA and what it does is about the time it spins up most of the time it goes CLUNK and stops spinning. She bought a new circuit board but to no avail. Her machine can't even detect it's own SATA card regularly and she says it was specifically made for Apples (I have my doubts about that). I don't know much more about Apples than she does probably much less.
Anyway, through a USB to SATA on my 7 machine I got it to see the drive but of course it says it needs formatted. I can't seem to bring it up at all with Ubuntu 10.04. I have no idea if Ubuntu can even read it if I did, nor do I know Ubuntu enough to know how to do what I can with 7. I had to kind of bash the thing around while it was spinning up to get it to detect in 7. I imagine if I can get any data off it I have only so many tries so after that I unplugged it and now.
I am here to ask how can I read this thing and copy stuff from 7 (If I can), or Ubuntu 10.04 or better yet both? I can't buy any programs at the moment, but if it is necessary and inexpensive she can. I'd prefer a fully functioning trial if I can't get a freebie. I do have Paragon Partition manager if that helps. These people are really good friends, the kind I take a non paying job for and give 110% on because they have been there for me for YEARS!
Thanks SO much if you can help or are willing to even try!!
It's a WD 400GB SATA and what it does is about the time it spins up most of the time it goes CLUNK and stops spinning. She bought a new circuit board but to no avail. Her machine can't even detect it's own SATA card regularly and she says it was specifically made for Apples (I have my doubts about that). I don't know much more about Apples than she does probably much less.
Anyway, through a USB to SATA on my 7 machine I got it to see the drive but of course it says it needs formatted. I can't seem to bring it up at all with Ubuntu 10.04. I have no idea if Ubuntu can even read it if I did, nor do I know Ubuntu enough to know how to do what I can with 7. I had to kind of bash the thing around while it was spinning up to get it to detect in 7. I imagine if I can get any data off it I have only so many tries so after that I unplugged it and now.
I am here to ask how can I read this thing and copy stuff from 7 (If I can), or Ubuntu 10.04 or better yet both? I can't buy any programs at the moment, but if it is necessary and inexpensive she can. I'd prefer a fully functioning trial if I can't get a freebie. I do have Paragon Partition manager if that helps. These people are really good friends, the kind I take a non paying job for and give 110% on because they have been there for me for YEARS!
Thanks SO much if you can help or are willing to even try!!
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