[GRLUG] Saving a Mac hard drive

[Roger Roelofs]

Before you take it apart, try firewire target disk mode.  While
booting the laptop, hold down the T key.  Attach a firewire cable
between the laptop and another computer.

The filesystem is probably HFS+ journaled.  Linux read support worked
the last time I tried, but it's been a while.  If you want we can try
to hook it up to my mac at work.

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, premature send there.
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> You need special screwdrivers to open the laptop. They are some sort
> of special torx style screws.
>
>>>
>>> Anyone know if you can boot a Mac with a knoppix disc?  Can they even boot from the cd drive?
>>
>> OSX Boot Options: http://face.centosprime.com/macosxw/startup-keys-boot-options/
>>
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