OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[James Richards]

Andre

This worked for my iBook too and is a cheap and easy diy solution if 
the actual drive and mechanism is OK.  If there is a problem with the 
drive itself, and *no other means of recovery is open to you* then you 
may have nothing to lose by disassembling (or getting someone else to 
disassemble) the HD itself and transferring its platters to another 
mechanism. This is a high risk last resort strategy for the point at 
which you are already regarding the data as lost. Google under 
'disassemble hard drive'.

Best of luck

James
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On 16 Jan, 2007, at 13:20, Viktoras Didziulis wrote:

> Andre,
>
> Lets hope it is not hard drive, but motherboard of your laptop, in 
> this case
> strange sounds may also come out from hard drive devices... There are
> external cases for hard drives to be connected through USB. They come 
> in
> different sizes for laptop and desktop hard drives and prices vary 
> (~30-70
> Eur per device). Once my PC (well, not Mac, but there should be similar
> things in Mac world too) crashed like yours, so I took the drive out,
> connected to the external case and made backup of all the remaining 
> contents
> using another computer with USB connection. Although that drive had 
> lots of
> bad sectors too and PC did not boot from it or any other device, but, 
> lucky
> I was, it worked this way... Just an idea to try...
>
> Viktoras