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Alas, my G3 Mac died. Finally.
9 years ago
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Which means, no more scanning ability. And I lost my entire Doug Winger archive, and Gideon Archive. Trapped on the HD. I dunno if it's salvageable, and I can't afford it regardless. I need a new scanner on this machine, and a Time Machine backup drive, and a decent art program STILL. Money is way to tight, and I just don't know what I can do. <:( It's quite a blow, losing an old friend of 18 years like that. But I smile, cause that machine saw some legendary service. Thank you ol' Grand Mac Daddy. You will be missed.
You can disassemble the system, pull the board free and the loosen up the drive after getting the tray loading CD ROM out.
You could ship me the drive after that. I have deep analysis software and a spare but used drive that will fit that old Mac. After reconstructing the drive and cloning it to the spare, I can ship the spare back. I do not have a Mac to test/boot or analyze with, but the drive will contain all I could recover. Slipping it into an external drive case and hooking it up to your modem Mac will get you back all the files you can browse to.
Or, box it all up really well and ship it off FedEx (they are gentler if you label the carton fragile and this end up ^^^) as other carriers will just toss the box around. Ups and USPS for example, sort with conveyor belts and robotic arms that slap boxes of into regional sort bins all hilly nilly from six feet up!
Either way, I'll return ship post repair as best as we can afford after attempting to make a recovery copy was made.
What say you?