Re: Tekserve HD Crash

njhilite wrote:
I have a 80GB HD from Tekserve with a Mac Partition on it. I used it
under Mac OS three years ago, but since then I always used it with
MacDrive under Windows as a storage/backup device. I don't own a Mac.
The drive worked fine for three years, but it finally crashed.
Now, every time I plug into the IEEE controller under windows, my pc
displays a short message on a blue screen (under Windows2000), which I
am not able to read, because it disappears after half a second and then
the PC reboots itself. It will eventually do this in a loop. I went to
Tekserve and they tried to access it under MacOS, but they get an error
message as well-bad sectors etc.
Now, I have some picture scans of my photographs-35mm-on it, as well as
other stuff, which I would like to retrieve. Especially the scans are a
lot of work. Is there a way to access that drive or retrieve the files.
Please help!!!

Thanks!!!


Nothing under windows that I know of will allow you to get to that Mac-formatted partition. Frankly, if MacDrive can't access it, I suspect it is toasted. Perhaps mounting it on a Mac might allow access to some of the data. OTOH, drives are not normally hot-plug devices, which might be the source of the error. You should plug the drive in before booting.

To change the error behavior, go to System Properties, Advanced Tab, Error handling and uncheck the box for automatically restarting on error.

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