PC data recovery on a G3

Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Alright, so my dual Xeon powerhouse took a dump after we had some storms here, and now my PC won't access the hard disk, and of course I have NOTHING backed up

The disk I'm using is a 10k rpm IBM 9gb SCSI that I have now hooked into my SCSI cable of my G3 450, which also plugs into the startup disk.

The mac sees the drive in disk utility, but I can't mount the volume or open the drive to retrieve my files. It says the status is read/write, and shows the volume type as windows_fat_32 and says its not mounted. I hit mount under options when I have the volume 1 volume selected (the only one, and its grayed-out too) and it then does nothing and deselects my volume.



What am I doing wrong?

Connection ID for the pc disk is 2, and the startup disk is 0. No other hard drives hooked up.



PS

Yes, I did search, but found nothing surprisingly.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    I'm running OSX 10.2.8 if that helps too
  • Reply 2 of 3
    Ah come on... This is Apple Insider! You're letting me down! I figured this would be answered immediately and a simple task? Anyone know how to solve this one?
  • Reply 3 of 3
    drboardrboar Posts: 477member
    Are you really running a dual xeon in FAT32 instead of NTFS that is the default FS in NT4, Win 2000 and XP.???

    If you use NTFS there is hope



    As I recall 10.2 does not read NTFS partitions (That the disk util detect the disk is an other thing more low level than the partition)



    Moving up to 10.4 will enable reading from NTFS but not writing to.
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