Tool Kit

The work continues to get the computer up and running. This morning before work I stopped by Lowes and picked up a fun Kobalt 27-Piece Speed Fit Micro Driver Set. It worked really well and made taking apart the computer really easy. I liked the set so much and because the tutorial was taking every thing out, I started doing that until a co-worker asked me what I was doing. Then I resized that the hard drive was accessible. So I plugged back in everything I unplugged from the main board and put the speakers back. We tried to get the data off the hard drive by putting it into a PC computer and using an Ubuntu Live CD to get to the data and copy it, but because of the file system on the hard drive and Journaling, we couldn't get the data. So we tried putting the hard drive into a mac tower, and it couldn't read the disk, the system just wanted to re-format it because it was un-readable. So we put the disk back into it's own computer/iMac, and put it back together as far as putting the screen back on, then we tried couple things to try to get the data like trying to boot into the disk, nothing. So we tried booting to the OS install disk and using Disk Utility, couldn't repair the disk or back up an image. So on Monday we are going to try to use Disk Warrior to see what it can do. Mainly why we are tying so hard to get information from the nearly dead hard drive is for one file that took a long time to gather information to create and is touched daily by the secretary. After that, then I can start the build of the new build of the OS on the new hard drive.

Oh ya, when I went out to get the new hard drive, I found out an interesting thing, hard drives are hard to come by right now. Because of the flooding that happened in Indonesia, hard drive production is greatly slowed and is making it tough to find hard drive. At Best Buy, there is a limit of one hard drive per customer. So I went next door to Office Depot, and they have a limit of 2 per customers. Nether stores had hard drives that I needed. So I went to a computer store in town named JPL, and they had some I needed for $15.00 more that what the others had them priced. So I finally got one and went back to work.