Re: Help, Daughters iBook was in fire....

On 2006-09-15 12:44:55 -0500, "rdemby" <rdemby@xxxxxxx> said:

I'm trying to salvage her music files. I took the HD out of the 'book
and put it in a FW/USB enclosure.
The HD does not show up on the desktop and disk utility does not see
it. I see a "unknown device" on the firewire bus. I've tried some
terminal calls and I believe that the drive is some how accessible. The
latest stumbling block is the drive is "owned" by my daughter. ie;

~ rwdemby$ diskutil verifyVolume /Volumes/G4iBook
Disk Utility Tool
Usage: diskutil [verifyVolume|repairVolume] [Mount Point|Disk
Identifier
|Device Node]
Verify or repair the disk structure of a volume. Ownership of the
affected disk is required.
Example: diskutil verifyVolume /Volumes/SomeDisk

How do I establish ownership?
What can I do to mount this drive?

Wait... how badly was her iBook burned? Are you sure the drive is even spinning up? Can you hear it spin up when you apply power?

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-JR

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