Mac Hard Drive... any help please? email me thedude1926@live.com OR lia_rahimi@live.com
S Brown
Just to let you know I have hardly any knowledge on Macs, however I am
improving slightly...
My friend's Mac crashed and burned, however data recovery is going to
cost them quoted at around.. $700 - $1500 smacks to retrieve and stick
on a USB. That's just plain stupid - or isn't it? Recovering data from
a PC is easy, with the IDE/Sata to USB cable... so...
I'm guessing the HDD of a Mac is different and isn't IDE/SATA? I doubt
it. But when quoted that much.. I'm assuming there is a major
procedure or equipment evolved. Lol.
So, are Mac HDD any different than out PCs? Data recovery for a Mac is
simply opening it, taking out the HDD, and extracting info like we
would a PC?
Thanks in advance!
S Brown
thedu...@live.com [or] lia_r...@live.com
Malcolm
> Heya folks
>
> Just to let you know I have hardly any knowledge on Macs, however I am
> improving slightly...
>
> My friend's Mac crashed and burned, however data recovery is going to
> cost them quoted at around.. $700 - $1500 smacks to retrieve and stick
> on a USB. That's just plain stupid - or isn't it? Recovering data from
> a PC is easy, with the IDE/SATA to USB cable... so...
If the Mac failed, and the drive is still OK, you can remove the drive
and use an adapter cable, put in an enclosure, or put it in another
computer then copy the data. If, however, the drive has failed, you
have to send it to a data recovery company, which is not cheap. $700 -
$1,500 does not sound unreasonable for that. They probably charge the
same to recover from a failed PC drive.
> I'm guessing the HDD of a Mac is different and isn't IDE/SATA? I doubt
> it. But when quoted that much.. I'm assuming there is a major
> procedure or equipment evolved. Lol.
Macs use standard hard drives, IDE or SATA depending on the age of the
Mac. The drives are formatted differently, though.
> So, are Mac HDD any different than out PCs?
No.
> Data recovery for a Mac is
> simply opening it, taking out the HDD, and extracting info like we
> would a PC?
Yes, if the drive itself hasn't failed.
Ben
Provided the drive is OK then just put it in a suitable external
enclosure (USB or FireWire) and hook it up to another Mac to read it.
(you cannot use a PC to read it unless you have a utility such as
MacDrive from DataViz as the Mac drive uses different formatting that a
PC cannot read).
You do not say what Mac your friend has, early Mac's used SCSI drives,
more recent ones used standard IDE drives, and all current ones from the
last few years use SATA drives. IDE and SATA drives are easy as
enclosures for USB or FireWire are standard items, you may have more
problems if it is SCSI, if this is the case then it would be easiest to
connect it to a Mac of a similar vintage on the internal SCSI bus.
Ben.
Christoph Gartmann
>My friend's Mac crashed and burned, however data recovery is going to
>cost them quoted at around.. $700 - $1500 smacks to retrieve and stick
>on a USB. That's just plain stupid - or isn't it? Recovering data from
>a PC is easy, with the IDE/Sata to USB cable... so...
>
>I'm guessing the HDD of a Mac is different and isn't IDE/SATA?
No, the drives are the same as the ones in PCs or other computers.
>I doubt it. But when quoted that much.. I'm assuming there is a major
>procedure or equipment evolved. Lol.
It really depends on the type of failure. What do you mean with the word
"burned"?
>So, are Mac HDD any different than out PCs? Data recovery for a Mac is
>simply opening it, taking out the HDD, and extracting info like we
>would a PC?
What you describe isn't data recovery, you describe some of the prerequisites
to perform a real data recovery. Again, the problem is not extracting the drive
an putting it into some other enclosure, the problem is retrieving data from
a somehow corrupted, non-functional or "burned" drive. The cost of such a
procedure is independent of any operating system involved, it simply depends
on the type of damage. I the above mentioned price is quite reasonable even for
a PC drive, provided that the drive suffers from a hardware defect.
Regards,
Christoph Gartmann
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technova
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