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I want to access data of an old iMac Gen2 HDD (40 GB) using Ubuntu 16 and a IDE to SATA adapter (which seems to work: already recovered data of a hdd that didnt spin for 20 years. it sounded as if it would disintegrate in a few seconds but i was lucky :-).

Then I tried to access data of the drive with the Mac partition table. The application Testdisk seemed to detect the Mac partition table. However when I wanted to start a QuickSearch the program seemed to be stuck. After that, i tried to clone the HDD using gnome-disks.

This is what happens when I try to clone the disk :-/

The process is super slow and it doesn't seem to read anything meaningful. The "reading speed" startet at 2.5 kbps and increased greatly to 5 kbps after 1 hour :-|. Moreover, my computer needed more than 30 mins to boot with the Mac HDD attached.

Did anyone also encountered and solved this problem? Any suggestions?

Thank you for inputs!

Cheers, Mike

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  • Info: The harddrive seems to startup correctly. It makes the expected initilializing noise for about 1-2 seconds. After that the HD remains silent (except for the noise of the spinning disk). I expected to hear the reader head move. It seems like it tries to read the hd like an old fashioned record reader.
    – Mike Rhosoft
    Jun 30, 2019 at 15:08
  • If the data is valuable (and your pockets are deep) send it to a professional data recovery service.
    – user931000
    Jun 30, 2019 at 15:38
  • Thanks GG, but that did not really help (my pockets are super sparse).
    – Mike Rhosoft
    Jun 30, 2019 at 20:48
  • I'm afraid there's no other way.
    – user931000
    Jun 30, 2019 at 23:13
  • Try cloning the block device using (gnu) ddrescue. You can try runninh it many times and it.can use a log file to continue where it left off. You can also try reading backwards.
    – davidgo
    Jul 1, 2019 at 6:46

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