Well, that didn't work—the internal hard disk is still damaged. *sigh* I've done some poking around, and it looks as if my current strategy will be to install a new & different bootable hard drive, get it up and running, and buy a copy of Data Rescue II (which looks as if it might allow me to recover at least some of the files from the old disk) and run it from the new drive. Pooh. I didn't need this.
crappyThanks ever so much, but no. I appreciate the offer, very much so, but OWC is selling Data Rescue II for $59.99 (which they say is 35% off retail), and that seems pretty reasonable to me. Yeah, ProSoft might well have a cheaper show special but this way I'll get it the same time as everything else (which looks now as if it will be Thursday, since two-day shipping from Chicago is pretty likely to get to Minneapolis in two days and I'm not quite desperate enough to want to pay for one-day overnight) and if they aren't having a show special I won't have to pay two shipping charges. If OWC were charging full retail I'd say "sure." I'm very glad to hear it's a good tool.
Come to think of it, though, if they have a show special on Prosoft Drive Genius 1.5 that beats $65 I would be interested in that—it looks like it might be a good/handy tool but I'm unsure enough that I'd either like to hear that it's really worth the money or get it cheaper (or both, eh?).
As for the SATA drives, according to both OWC's write-up and their customer support person I IM'ed with this morning, yes, our Blue & White G3 can indeed run them once I've installed the PCI controller card that comes with the package. If you're interested, here's the write-up.
What I am having trouble finding is a two-tier mounting rack for anchoring the drives inside the B&W G3 [and, unless the drives come with them, the half-a-bazillion little screws to hold the drive(s) to the bracket (do drives typically come with screws their own?)]. Any idea who sells them?
