[GRLUG] Saving a Mac hard drive

[Topher]

A friend has a Mac with a dead drive.  It was working, he left the room, came back, and it was dead.  He took it to the Mac store and they said they couldn't get his data off, but he could send it to California and *maybe* $1200 would fix it.

I'm inclined to try to get the data off in the traditional Linux way, with a knoppix disc or simply connecting it to my machine and mounting it.

It's a laptop drive, and I don't know how to get those out of a Mac laptop, nor how to hook it up to my machine.

Anyone know if you can boot a Mac with a knoppix disc?  Can they even boot from the cd drive?

Topher
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