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| Thread ID: 104637 | 2009-11-03 05:48:00 | Recoving data from Mac HDD | Chris09 (15218) | Press F1 |
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| 826820 | 2009-11-03 05:48:00 | Hey there Just to let you know I have hardly any knowledge on Macs, however I am improving slightly... My friend's Mac crashed and burned, however data recovery is going to cost them quoted at around.. $700 - $1500 smacks to retrieve and stick on a USB. That's just plain stupid - or isn't it? Recovering data from a PC is easy, with the IDE/Sata to USB cable... so... I'm guessing the HDD of a Mac is different and isn't IDE/SATA? I doubt it. But when quoted that much.. I'm assuming there is a major procedure or equipment evolved. Lol. So, are Mac HDD any different than out PCs? Data recovery for a Mac is simply opening it, taking out the HDD, and extracting info like we would a PC? Cheers in advanced. |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 826821 | 2009-11-03 05:57:00 | Its a MAC and therefore carries a significant price tag to match, its called monopolization yet they don't get penalized like MS do | gary67 (56) | ||
| 826822 | 2009-11-03 06:11:00 | Looks like Mac hdds can be IDE / SATA, SCSI, USB2 or firewire. Probably the same as windows. You would have to remove it, to see what kind if hdd it is. Altho, the prob maybe accessing the hdd (if windows doesnt know the format). You may have to install a program that can access it. Then you'll have to find a program, so you can recover the data | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 826823 | 2009-11-03 06:35:00 | remove the HDD from the Mac, put it in an external case and hook it up to another Mac and you should be able to read of that drive just like any other external drive that you connect to a Mac. the only time it wont work if the drive itself is damaged. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 826824 | 2009-11-03 06:39:00 | Linux will also read Mac drives no trouble (they're generally formatted as HFS or HFS+). The recovery process is more or less identical to recovering a Windows drive as long as the drive itself isn't damaged; you just can't use Windows to do it (you need a Linux or Mac system). |
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| 826825 | 2009-11-03 06:42:00 | Or a program that can read mac formats (they exist for windows). This may work (hem.bredband.net) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 826826 | 2009-11-03 08:32:00 | Excellent guys, very informative. I guess I'll have to see what it is first. I've got a spare PC, so I'm thinking of putting UserOS Extreme 9.04, which is a customized version of Ubuntu 9.04, so I might experiment with that. Well, I guess when they say Macs break, they break. Score one for PCs. I shall return to this topic if I have any more qurries about it. Thanks all! |
Chris09 (15218) | ||
| 826827 | 2009-11-03 09:10:00 | but compare how often pcs have troubles compared to macs. It becomes even again | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 826828 | 2009-11-03 09:37:00 | If the HDD is physically faulty then data recovery will cost as much, if not more than, as you have been quoted. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 826829 | 2009-11-06 03:38:00 | Hi all! I've got the drive. It's SATA, I've set it up and connected it to my Win7 machine. Unfortunately when I try to access it from My Computer as a drive it gives me the error "The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable." I both have MacDrive and HSFexplorer installed. I am unable to read it with MacDrive HOWEVER HSFexplorer can read very little - which either means I'm not using that program properly, or I'm not allowed access to the rest of the information, or it's actually damaged. Help please! www.imagef1.net.nz |
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