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?
Recovering macbook hard drive
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external enclosures (2.5 SATA)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=2010090092 1053807124 1054107131&name=SATA
grab one from frys or best buy plug your drive in and plug into any computer...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&N=2010090092 1053807124 1054107131&name=SATA
grab one from frys or best buy plug your drive in and plug into any computer...
mobilehaathi
macrumors G3
This sounds good. Unless your HD is water damaged....then you're SOL.
Drumjim85
macrumors 68030
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
macrumors G3
Yeah that's true. But I usually consider the option where I have to pay a lot of money the SOL stage.
Drumjim85
macrumors 68030
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.