🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:22:56 +0000, 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?
> 
> Phil, London

Mac hard drives are highly reliable devices and are styled to match the 
internal decor of your Macintosh so it is unlikely that his hard drive 
has failed.