Re: Mac data recovery

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From: Philip Herlihy
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:21

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Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 2009-01-11 12:01:15 +0000, Philip Herlihy 
> <thiswillbounceback@you.com> said:
> 
>> We had a crack at it this morning.  The disk is clattering internally 
>> (before giving up) and wasn't recognised at all by the Mac.  Appears 
>> to have a physical fault, and for this friend, seems beyond economic 
>> repair.
> 
> Ouch. Duncan over at retrodata.com may be able to help, especially if 
> you've not tried to run Diskwarrior on the thing.
> 
>> Thanks to everyone who has helped with this.
> 
> If your friend's running "Leopard", ie Mac OS X 10.5, *tell* him to get 
> an external disk and use Time Machine (a feature of 10.5) to keep a 
> permanent backup on it.

Retrodata's quoting �375 +vat on the website - beyond my friend's 
budget, sadly.

Yup, we've talked about backups.

Phil

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