I'm at my wit's end and thought I'd give it a shot on this forum.
I have two hard drives, one an external WD Passport 120GB that was formatted for Mac and the other is an internal (converted to external USB) Fujitsu 60GB hard drive that originally came with my PB 12".
These drives used to mount on the desktop of my Black Macbook for a bit, but that was a few months ago. I've since sold my Black Macbook and obtained a 17" PB G4 1.67GHz, etc... Whenever I plug in the hard drives, they both started to make a clicking sound. Uh oh, there may be something really wrong and I thought my data was long gone.
Then, on a whim, I took out my Toshiba Windoze Laptop and plugged them both in, and wouldn't you know both hard drives sprang to life (no clicking) but did not mount. I think the hard drives are damaged because I tried using both TransMac and HFSExplorer to see if I could salvage my data. No go.
What else can I do? I feel that if the hard drives are spinning and Windows recognizes whenever I plug them in and recognizes them as HD's in device managers but I can't seem to get data off the drives. Is there a way to force mount them in Leopard or Windoze?
If I posted in the wrong areas/forums please direct me correctly, I apologize if this is *off* topic. Thanks for any help!
I have two hard drives, one an external WD Passport 120GB that was formatted for Mac and the other is an internal (converted to external USB) Fujitsu 60GB hard drive that originally came with my PB 12".
These drives used to mount on the desktop of my Black Macbook for a bit, but that was a few months ago. I've since sold my Black Macbook and obtained a 17" PB G4 1.67GHz, etc... Whenever I plug in the hard drives, they both started to make a clicking sound. Uh oh, there may be something really wrong and I thought my data was long gone.
Then, on a whim, I took out my Toshiba Windoze Laptop and plugged them both in, and wouldn't you know both hard drives sprang to life (no clicking) but did not mount. I think the hard drives are damaged because I tried using both TransMac and HFSExplorer to see if I could salvage my data. No go.
What else can I do? I feel that if the hard drives are spinning and Windows recognizes whenever I plug them in and recognizes them as HD's in device managers but I can't seem to get data off the drives. Is there a way to force mount them in Leopard or Windoze?
If I posted in the wrong areas/forums please direct me correctly, I apologize if this is *off* topic. Thanks for any help!