How to recover my hdd

So my macbook pro late2010 crashed last week and I took it to the apple store on 5th ave.
Turns out the logic board was damaged so they sent it out for it to be fix.
I didnt get a chance to backup my macbook cause it wouldnt start. So I lost all my files data ect.
They replaced the logic board and wiped the macbook but...They kept the same hdd
Is there any way I can recover the files since its the same hdd ??

I've used Data Rescue 3 with good results - but, as far as I know, it won't be able to completely recover your apps, system files, etc. It works best on data files.
If you want to attempt to completely recover the entire disk, I don't know of a way that you can do it yourself - I don't even know that a forensics data recovery center could do that: if you're in NYC, you can always Google and find a forensics data recovery lab and ask them if they would be able to 'completely' recover a drive but I'm betting that the answer will be "no."
But it's worth looking it up and phoning, I suppose - it may be quite expensive.
Clinton

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Hello,
I got a very big problem.
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Well, now problem - everything looked fine, but when I got into Vista set-up I had to shut the computer down.
Now, when I start the pc and load Vista I get message that I should reinstall my computer again.
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Do u think that when I delete whole Vista disk manually - e.g. with linux and then start the computer up, I get option to load second part of the disk to start installation?
Thanks in advance since I am really despair

There has NEVER been an option to use F8 (or when am I supposed to push F8?). I could always enter recovery mode ONLY when Windows did not load successfully (in the past I could not start emergency mode). I guess I do not have to order it since I started ubuntu, and copied entier HDDRecovery folder onto my external drive, so I guess I gotta buy DVD which has ~6GB and burn content of the folder (not folder itself?). and then it will boot from the DVD? (like windows when u install it).
By the way, I guess there is no way to start recovery from ext. hdd (yea a silly bios).
I know I should back it up myself, but Toshiba could give one cd with the notebook. However, it is probably their policy. How many people burn recovery? well, they need to make some money ....
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My T410s which had shutdown quite normally and didn't give any indication of problems died suddenly with a blue screen of death. I tried rebooting in different safe modes, The disk is cold dead and inaccessible even as a slave drive on another computer. My tech support person said he tried to "freeze" (as is low temperature) the HDD in the hope that it might jiggle the platters back to action. Didn't work either.
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I am using a MBPro from 2011. I lost a lot of family pictures due to my iPhoto library loosing the connection to the original hi-res files. At the moment I try to recover those with Data Rescue4 but it looks I lost quite a lot.
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Until March 2014 my iPhoto Library resided on my Mac HDD
The HDD broke and had to be exchanged
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You can or should be able to recover the iphoto library directly from the NAS.. you do not need to copy it to a disk.
TM cannot create a backup from a network source.. but it is very happy using a network target.
Our friend Pondini wrote extensive notes on recovery of various important files using TM
See Q15 here. http://pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
There is a link in there to recovery of iphoto in particular under various OS.. but the guy died before Yosemite was inflicted on the Apple Community.
TM has never worked particularly well since Yosemite.. so I can only offer my hope that the method still works..
Here is an example of recovery manually of iphoto library from TM backup I did to show how it is done.
Can't access old files on time capsule
In Yosemite you might be able to simply right click on the file in Finder.. and it bring up an option to recover it from TM.. of course that would assume TM was going to actually work and that is a bridge too far for Yosemite.
In the end.. you can of course do a full recovery to a USB drive plugged into your computer.. I have also used that method to get around issues with finding stuff from old backup.. however IMHO the manual method of digging through the backup offers you the best chance of recovery.
Do protect the TM sparsebundle.. in the end that is the only connection back to you files you have.. so saving a copy of the sparsebundle to a USB drive is not a bad idea.. Certainly do nothing in terms of manipulating the sparsebundle.. you can extract files from it.. copy it to another location.. but make no changes to original sparsebundle on the network drive whatsoever.. so do not continue backups to it or anything like that.
My strong recommendation btw since Yosemite or even Mavericks was to use Carbon Copy Cloner.. and make a bootable backup of your main operating system and any other drives.. You would not be in this mess if you had .. so for future reference.. TM is not really adequate.

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Satellite A350-110 (PSAL6E-006009G3)
how can i recover my system from that files without any toshiba utilities?
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Hi guys,
Ok so I've got a really bad virus on my computer, which my Norton software is not picking up.
Somebody told me I could reboot my computer to get rid of the virus but my files will be lost.
I think the process is called recovery as it recovers the manufacturer's original settings.
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Hi
Why you dont read some threads here in the forum if you have no clue how the recover works?
There are a lot of threads about this theme!
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PS: user manual contains also some details about recovery process!

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Hi there guys!
I have a pro with my satellite A200-10X, it has only one HDD volume, and i want to make them two... and everytime i use the product recovery CD, it formats the HDD... but i do not know how to partition the HDD two get two volume spaces...
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ress any key to stop auto-boot...
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