Need Help With Data Recovery!

[eyedoc_00]

My iMac G5 is basically dead. Logic board failure. Apple is going to replace it by giving me a credit toward the purchase of a new iMac but that is a different story. I need to send my G5 back to them.

Can I take the internal hard drive out and transfer the data to a PC and then get that data off the PC onto an external HD?

Any help or thoughts on how I can recover my data before I need to send the G5 back to apple.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Tiki35]

You can take your hard drive out of your G5 and install it as a secondary drive in a PC and then use a program like MacDrive or HFSExplorer to copy the data to an external drive.

 

[Tumbleweed666]

Any help or thoughts on how I can recover my data before I need to send the G5 back to apple.

Why wouldn't you use your backup?

 

[eyedoc_00]

You can take your hard drive out of your G5 and install it as a secondary drive in a PC and then use a program like MacDrive or HFSExplorer to copy the data to an external drive.

Thanks, I will look it those options.

Why wouldn't you use your backup?

I have a time capsule that I will use, but it can never hurt to make sure everything is backed up. I have lost data before and now I try and have at least my photos backed up in multiple places.