OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Brent Anderson]

Hello.

There are data recovery specialists that can take even a dead drive  
and extract the data off of it. Their services usually are aimed for  
corporations with hefty bankrolls, but you may be able to find  
someone who can do it within your budget. A google for "Data  
Recovery" will point you to a handful of these services. Some of them  
range from using specialized utility docks for the drive itself that  
interfaces with specific drive manufacturers and models while the  
extreme is the disassembly of the hard drive in a clean-room  
environment and reading the data off of the platters from another  
device. It's safe to say that this spectrum of simple to extreme is  
mirrored by cost, but there are options yet for your dead MacBook. A  
(very) brief exploration of services available indicates that the  
cost of recovery may be from $380 and up. If you have AppleCare (Or  
another insurance program), however, you may be in luck. I'm not too  
familiar with how much coverage AppleCare will give you, but it may  
cover data recovery in the event of defective hardware.

Thanks,
Brent Anderson
CMSEC


On Jan 15, 2007, at 9:33 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Friends,
>
> I was here coding some AJAX programs and developing libraries, my  
> macbook just made a strange mechanical noise and then it was  
> dead... when tried to boot, it made lots of mechanical noises and  
> it never booted again. The noises are comming from the hard drive.  
> I am assuming I lost everything. all my source code for the last  
> year and everything I was working. I don't know what is broken...  
> but I can't make it boot even from CDs...
>
> I don't know what I am to do now. I am writting from my old G4. I  
> was doing some contract work and then it broke. The machine is now  
> bricked. Can't boot from HD, Firewire, Network or CD, I've tried  
> them all. The screen goes white, lot's of bad noises and the famous  
> question mark of "no system folder". I can't even erase the PRAM...  
> never chimes.
>
> sorry for this annoucement but it will be a while till I set  
> everything up again. Tomorrow I'll go to apple repair service but  
> they are making a fool of me for more than three months already. I  
> was waiting for a replacement main board for this same machine. Now  
> it appears, I'll need a new machine.
>
> My backup machine was broken some months ago, I had no money to buy  
> the parts to build it up again. The G4 had no space for hosting the  
> macbooks backup. I think I just lost all my revolution source code  
> which was maybe 5 or 6 gb worth of code.
>
> andre
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