OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Phil Jimmieson]

Hi Andre,
have you tried removing the drive from your MacBook (easy to do with 
the new laptops) and seeing if the machine will boot from CD/DVD 
without it? If not then the machine is dead, and your disk may be 
recoverable. For that you'd need someone with an equivalent MacBook 
that you could put your messed-up (not dead we hope) drive into. You 
could firewire mount that onto yet another Mac system and copy your 
home filestore onto that, or back it up onto DVD-R. I've done 
variations on this in the past to recover dead systems.

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Phil Jimmieson  phil at csc.liv.ac.uk  (UK) 0151 795 4236
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