Topic: dead hard drive question

[thesameage]

A friend of mine has a show that I need on his external hard drive.  Sadly, this hard drive recently crashed/broke. Any suggestions on what we can do to access it? Here is the e-mail from him:

Running off my mac laptop. (powerbook running osx)

I was recording directly to the drive in Lexington and the recording froze.
When I tried to move files to the hard drive at Irving, we were unable to
access the drive.  Tried repairing permissions, and then just bagged it and
used my FOH engineer's laptop to record on Sat.

Haven't revisited it since.  When I plug in the fire wire and turn on the
drive the lacie icon comes up on my desktop, but I can't get into the drive.

What do you think?

[greenone]

If you can see the drive, that's a good sign. I'd try DiskWarrior - it's an absolute beast when it comes to recovering borked drives. A small investment that's worth it ($88). Good luck!