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Philip Herlihy wrote:
> Apologies for the cross-posting - this is an urgent problem (to me!) and 
> I don't know which group to ask.
> 
> A friend with a Mac (sorry I don't know more yet) has had a hard disk 
> failure and has lost important data.  No more details available yet, but 
> the chap isn't very technical.
> 
> I know very little about Macs, but have successfully recovered data from 
> PC hard disks several times where the problem is with damaged 
> information, rather than damaged electronics or physical components. I'd 
> glibly offered to help - entirely forgetting that his machine is a Mac.
> 
> I guess if I try the usual approach of trying to hook the disk up via a 
> USB interface to my own PC, or booting the entire machine from a 
> bootable CD, I won't be able to read the disk anyway.
> 
> So:  Q1 - is there anything a PC-oriented person like me might try (I 
> only have PCs available, or various Linux boot CDs.
> 
> Q2: can anyone recommend a suitable specialist in the London area who 
> _does_ know what they are doing?
> 

Id mount the disk in a USB caddy and then hook it up to a working Mac, 
that will be the easiest solution.

Depending on the formatting of the disk will depend if Windows can read 
it, if your lucky it might just be a FAT disk, if its HFS+ I think your 
gonna be screwed.

There is a free tool called HFSExplorer for Windows that may help you 
though.

YMMV.


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Gavin.

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