Recovering macbook hard drive [Archive]

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TommyFiz

Sep 18, 2008, 07:06 PM

I made a post a little over two weeks ago about my macbook being water damaged and what I should do. I waited two weeks and tried to turn it on and it still wouldn't fire up. Anyways, I'm hoping that maybe, just maybe, my hard drive isn't completely fried. Is there any way I could get important files off that hard drive, without buying another macbook and putting the hd in that laptop?

RRW71

Sep 18, 2008, 10:44 PM

external enclosures (2.5 SATA)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010090092%201053807124%201054107131&name=SATA

grab one from frys or best buy plug your drive in and plug into any computer...

mobilehaathi

Sep 18, 2008, 10:47 PM

Drumjim85

Sep 18, 2008, 11:08 PM

This sounds good. Unless your HD is water damaged....then you're SOL.

well, even then you could take it to a data recovery place, pay a lot of money, and have a chance at getting some files back.

mobilehaathi

Sep 19, 2008, 07:29 AM

well, even then you could take it to a data recovery place, pay a lot of money, and have a chance at getting some files back.

Yeah that's true. But I usually consider the option where I have to pay a lot of money the SOL stage.:D

TommyFiz

Sep 22, 2008, 08:00 PM

sorry for my ignorance, but will a windows pc be able to take files from the mac hard drive? they aren't mac specific files, but it just seems like the pc wouldn't be able to read a mac-formatted hd?

Drumjim85

Sep 22, 2008, 08:19 PM

sorry for my ignorance, but will a windows pc be able to take files from the mac hard drive? they aren't mac specific files, but it just seems like the pc wouldn't be able to read a mac-formatted hd?

its not really a matter of the files being a certain way, its that a mac formats its drives differently. You can see and use a mac formatted HDD on a windows machine, but you'll need (totally just blanked on the name) some software.