{"id":3780,"date":"2006-04-27T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/state-of-the-computer\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:45:03","slug":"state-of-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/state-of-the-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6609,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/manuals.info.apple.com\\\/en\\\/PMG5_HD_DIY.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090419173226\\\/http:\\\/\\\/manuals.info.apple.com:80\\\/en\\\/PMG5_HD_DIY.pdf&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 07:33:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 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15:35:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:6617,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.plasticsfuture.org\\\/2006\\\/04\\\/23\\\/mac-backup-software-harmful&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, the computer lives &#8212; though we&#8217;re definitely dealing with a near-total case of amnesia.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, a new hard drive has been purchased and installed (and I <em>love<\/em> how easy it is to <a href=\"http:\/\/manuals.info.apple.com\/en\/PMG5_HD_DIY.pdf\" title=\"Apple: Power Mac G5 Hard Drive Replacement Instructions (.pdf)\">install a hard drive into a PowerMac G5<\/a> [.pdf link]), the OS is installed, and I&#8217;m going through the (slow, laborious) process of downloading and reinstalling all the various programs I use on a day-to-day-basis. Also, as I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/\" title=\"Gmail\">Gmail<\/a> as my primary e-mail address for some time now, most of my recent e-mail still exists (on Google&#8217;s servers), which is allowing me to rebuild my address book and contact lists.<\/p>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>The downside, of course, is that so far I&#8217;ve been unable to coax the dead drive into doing much of anything. I haven&#8217;t given up completely, though. Using some <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=106214\" title=\"Apple: Using Disk Utility and fsck to resolve startup issues or perform disk maintenance\">instructions from Apple<\/a> I used <code>fsck<\/code> on the problem drive and got the following:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Quicksilver:\/ djwudi$ sudo fsck_hfs -l \/dev\/disk1s9\nPassword:\n** \/dev\/rdisk1s9 (NO WRITE)\n** Checking HFS Plus volume.\n   Invalid B-tree node size\n(4, 0)\n** The volume   needs to be repaired.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>A quick Google for &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=mac+os+x+invalid+b-tree+node+size&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\" title=\"Google: mac os x invalid b-tree node size\">mac os x invalid b-tree node size<\/a>&#8216; led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/forums\/ubbthreads\/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=UBB2&amp;Number=159295&amp;page=0&amp;view=collapsed&amp;sb=7&amp;o=&amp;fpart=1\" title=\"Macworld Forums: Invalid BTree node size,4,0\">this Macworld Forums<\/a> discussion which indicates that either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsoft.com\/DiskWarrior\/\" title=\"Alsoft: DiskWarrior\">DiskWarrior<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micromat.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=83\" title=\"Micromat: TechTool Pro 4\">TechTool Pro<\/a> should be able to at least recover my data, if not actually repair and resurrect the drive. So I think that acquiring one of those will be my next step, though that will have to wait for a week or three until I&#8217;ve got a paycheck not already claimed for little things like rent, bills, and food. With luck, though, those will allow me to pull the old data off once I get to that point.<\/p>\n<p>And if that doesn&#8217;t work, then I can always try the <a href=\"http:\/\/geeksaresexy.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html\" title=\"Geeks are Sexy: Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Myth or reality?\">freezing trick<\/a> that&#8217;s been mentioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/good_days_and_b.html#comment-53238\" title=\"Nitallica: If it's a Western Digital...\">Nitallica<\/a> and  <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/good_days_and_b.html#comment-53271\" title=\"Josh: Try the freezer method...\">Josh<\/a>. Seems a little bizarre, but hey, if it might help&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, rebuilding goes slowly, but I&#8217;m making progress. I also picked up an external enclosure for an old 80Gb drive I had been meaning to liberate from my old Blue and White G3, slapped the pieces together, and now have an external drive that I&#8217;ll be using as a backup repository using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirt-pocket.com\/SuperDuper\/SuperDuperDescription.html\" title=\"SuperDuper!\">SuperDuper!<\/a>, which I found though a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.plasticsfuture.org\/2006\/04\/23\/mac-backup-software-harmful\/\" title=\"plasticsfuture: Mac Backup Software Harmful\">rundown of OS X backup software<\/a> pointed out to me by <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/good_days_and_b.html#comment-53231\" title=\"Marcus: For a good review of backup\/disk cloning software...\">Marcus<\/a>. Once that&#8217;s up and running, than even if this happens again somewhere down the line, I won&#8217;t have lost the data.<\/p>\n<p>I know: backup, backup, backup! You always think it won&#8217;t happen to you&#8230;and then it does. Ah, well. So it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone for the support and suggestions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the computer lives &#8212; though we&#8217;re definitely dealing with a near-total case of amnesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}