What a mess!

> Visibility of previous posts is haywire again!

...and this time it's even affecting me! It's random: in some threads I get the las two, in some, only the last.

Visibility of previous posts is haywire again!

I was just there too and I think I find what happen to you at this thread,the admin will give you better answer ,perhaps the IP setting trouble you at that time,it just an advice

We've drifted terribly off-topic, but I do want to emphasize one last thing to pj and then request that we all get back to the forums issue at hand...
>No backups. Up till now as long as I had mac's I've never had one to melt down like this.

Understand that Macs use the same drive mechanisms as other computers. At some point, generally when you can least afford it to happen, it will fail! Develop a backup scheme ASAP, even if your drive is brand-spanking new.

...we now return to "What a mess".

Thanks!

Neil

>Definitely something to use as a last resort.

well like i said, it was a FIRST resort, and probably should always be used as such when you're going to use it... the problem with making it a last resort is you've probably already damaged the disk even more with attempts at recovery, either manually or with utilities.

it's expansion and contraction that makes it work.

>Does That count against the number computer I am allowed I believe (5) activated.

yes. but apple will reset that count (full 5) once a year. or just roll back one at a time when ever you need. i went through that with them last year before i felt comfortable ordering any quantity of music/video from itunes.

No backups. Up till now as long as I had mac's I've never had one to melt down like this. (Hard drive to go bad. I've replaced drives due to needing large drive or to install different system. But never had a drive to go bad. And I've owned a Mac Starting with the SE/30. (the little computer withe the 9 inche CRT built in).

I've asked the people working on computer to give me the drive.

At the time it melted down. I was attempting to go to Mark/Space Forum site. No writing involved.

The freezing theory work because if the failure was as a result of Bearing seizing Heat related.

On my iTunes stuff I have almost the same collection on my G4-500 so I can copy those over except recent tunes downloads not on the G4-500.
my question is if I have a Drive to go bad and I reinstall. Does That count against the number computer I am allowed I believe (5) activated.

Thanks for all that info, dave. I've made a note of it, just in case.

I was actually pretty surprised when i was able to read that first batch of files off! :)

these files were so precious i was about to take no chances with them. i'm pretty good at recovering data from damage drives and have a couple decades doing it, but i know that as soon as you start messing with the drive for write purposes, you risk everything. i remembered this trick from way back and decided to try it as it only involved reading data and no external utils and i got VERY lucky.

if this didn't work it was off to seagate's clean room for disassembley and data retrieval at a cost of around 1000 bux (to start) and up.

the pictures were pretty much the 1st 5 or 6 years of my kids lives. :o

> What's the principle behind that? Sounds intriguing and interesting.

something to do with the hard drive platters shrinking minimally (compressing) when frozen , and slightly expanding when heated. so if there's some kind of slight mis-alignment going on you might be able to (in my case was able to) get the drive working for a short period of time - 15 mins or so in my case - to copy files off.