I was wondering if anyone know how to recover files from a powerbook. My gf's cousin drop her notebook....she took it to the apple store and they said it would cost her $1k!!! Now I dont know about mac or hdd recovery...but **** $1k!!! So any clues guys?? TIA.
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Remove the hard drive. Plug it in to another system. Does it work? If so, buy a new system and use this hard drive with it, perhaps as an external hard drive.
If it does not work, consider how much the data is worth. If the data is worth substantially over $1000, take it to a hard drive recovery centre. If the data is worth substantially less than $1000, write it off. -
Blue screen of some sort(BSOD?)....I dont know what the details are...but trying to help her find any other way to do it. But does it really cost $1k to recover files on hdd? She took it to an apple store and that's what they said...
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I guess no one knows?
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If it is damage to the physical part of the disc, then yes it will cost at least $1000 to recover. Basically a company takes the hard drive into a clean room and takes it apart. However if it is a software error, there are programs out there that can recover the data. Not sure which ones for the mac, but I am sure they exist. I don't think Apple is talking about data recovery. Try the hard drive in another system as a slave drive, don't try to boot from it. If it shows up try to pull the data off immediately. Once you have the data get your new notebook!
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When you say a "new system," I'm assuming that it has to be a mac os or can it be hook up to an external hd and try on a windows os?
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That's a good question that I really wouldn't have much answer for. You could probably grab the data you need but i wouldn't lnow for sure. I would try it and if it doesn't work use a live Linux CD, see if that will do it. Maybe someone else will respond. You could also try mac-forums.com or the Apple Support Forums. You would likely get a very quick answer. Good luck!
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If you have another Mac and a firewire cable to connect the two you could try Target Disk Mode.( http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583). It isn't guaranteed to work, but worth a try.
Windows machines cannot read Mac-formatted drives by default, but I would imagine that as suggested above a Linux live cd might be able to.
This is of course also assuming the damage is not physical. If the damage to the hard drive is physical, see the above post - is the data worth $1000, if not write it off.
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