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Gavsta wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

That's enormously helpful.  My friend has another Mac, so we'll try that 
first.  Very grateful, as I've had occasion to be so many times to 
newsgroup contributors.

Phil