[GRLUG] Saving a Mac hard drive

[L. V. Lammert]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Topher 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.
>
The most likely problem is in the controller board of the disk, .. the
simplest way to test is take the drive out and hang it on a working Linux
system *on the bus* (USB adapters are sometimes unreliable with weirdly
formatted disks).

Chances of getting it spinning again and pulling data off without taking
it apart are in the 20-30% range, .. unfortunately.

Google "hard disk repair" for options, but it is expensive.

	Lee

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