IMAC Fusion Hard Drive failure, help with data recovery

I've got a Late 2012 iMAC 27 Inches 3.4GHZ with a Fusion 3.1TB HDD. My machine has booting issue the past few weeks and when contacted through Apple Care UK, after a few over the phone diagnostics they wanted me to take the machine over to get the Hard Drive checked. I had transferred some of my vital data from another HDD a few days before that and did not have an up to date backup. When booked in they said the HDD will have to be replaced and they will migrate the data over. But when I collected the machine, they said they couldn't transfer data as 'it didn't mount' and therefore unable to transfer. I was gutted as I have 2 wedding on their which were WIP and had to be delivered to the client in a few days. I have got my old HDD from the apple store...but unable to read data..can you help? Guess as a final resort I'd have to obtain the expensive data recovery services.

Ouch...
But before going for an expensive data recovery service, you have some other options.
At first you have to get that harddrive connected to your iMac. There are several solutions to that. One is to buy a SATA USB Docking Bay (see picture). You can put the harddisk in it and connect it via USB to your iMac.
Next you'll need recovery software. Disk Utility will probably not help you, but it is worth the try (because it is free and comes with OSX).
A great piece of software to look at is DiskWarrior. It once helped me accessing a dying External Harddisk and got most of the data off it before it really died. There are more applications, just google 'Data Recovery OSX', and you will find a lot more.
Oh, and make sure to start a good back-up plan for the future. Time Machine is great, or Carbon Copy Cloner, and maybe invest in a decent NAS to copy your data on.
Good luck!

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Hard drive failure - options for data recovery and AppleCare coverage

I have been handed a relative's 12 month old MacBook Pro with a factory-installed 500GB hard drive which appears to have failed. When attempting to boot the MacBook I am met with the classic clicking and grating noise which I know is a tell-tale sign of hard drive failure. The drive will not boot and I am shown the question mark folder icon, indicating that the operating system cannot be found. Have booted into internet recovery mode, Disk Utility appears to have found no sign of the hard drive's existence and shows none of its partitions. I have attempted putting the MacBook into FW target-mode and mounting the disk from another laptop, but to no avail; while it will go into target mode the drive simply isn't visible. The SATA connection to the drive is definitely OK - I have tested with another 2.5 inch hard drive which showed up fine in Disk Utility and was bootable. Have run Apple Hardware Test/Diagnostics but this returned no errors. It seems like a pretty clear cut case of drive failure.
I put this all to the relative whose laptop this is and asked them whether the MacBook had been dropped recently, explaining to them that this is one of the likeliest causes for such sudden failure. Sheepishly they admitted that they had indeed dropped it, although not from too great a distance and onto a carpeted floor. Apparently in the days immediately after the shock the hard drive continued to boot but the system was very slow and beset by spinning beech ball hangups. It is only in the last few days that the hard drive has become completely unbootable, and seemingly unreachable.
I have two questions that I would be grateful for some help with.
Firstly, is there any possibility of recovering data from this drive without going to a data recovery specialist? The user did have backups of most important data, but some recently imported photos were not backed up. Is it any use me trying any third-party data recovery software utilities, bearing in mind that I can't even mount the drive in target mode?
Second, the MacBook is still covered by the extended AppleCare warranty for the next two years. Is it worth my relative's while making a Genius Bar appointment to see whether Apple would replace this drive for free, given that the damage was most likely user-inflicted? Is there any chance that this sudden failure could be unrelated to the drop the MacBook suffered the other day - perhaps just a result of the 'normal' failure rate? I am more than happy to exchange the drive for a new one myself and my relative is happy to pay for the new part (I was amazed at how cheap hard drives are now), but would we be better off trying an Apple Store? My prediction would be that while we might get lucky and have an obliging genius who agrees to swap the drive without asking too many questions, we could also have one who concludes the damage is not covered by the warranty and insists on charging for the new hard drive (at a mark-up I assume) and labour.
Any thoughts about these two issues or the hard drive failure more generally are very welcome. Thanks.

1, Data recovery software is your only alternative if there is no backup. It may or may not be able to revoker anything from that hard drive. If it does then the only other choice is to go to a data recovery service. If have to go that route expect to pay for it, like $$$$.
2, Yes. They will at least tell him what the problem is and the cost if any to fix. There is a good chance they will fix it for nothing and only charge for data recovery if they can do it.

Experiencing strange performance issues after a hard drive failure - Help!

I bought my mid-2012 i5 Macbook Pro in December of 2012. I realized when shopping for computers that I wanted an SSD installed, but that it would be a lot cheaper if I bought the SSD and installed it rather than customizing it in the Apple Store. So I bought a nice Samsung 128GB SSD (820 or 840 - can't remember which) and did the installation. I went ahead and installed two 4GB sticks of RAM while I was at it. Everything was just dandy: my boot time was just under 9 seconds, and all of my data-heavy apps booted in no-time at all. Then all **** broke loose.
About two weeks ago, I opened my computer and I got the dreaded "? File Folder" notification with a gray screen. I immediately thought hard drive failure. No matter how many times I tried to boot, the computer just would not talk to the SSD anymore. I used Internet Recovery to get into my Disk Utility, and the entire partition was gone. I assumed the worst but wanted to be sure - I bought a hard drive enclosure and hooked the SSD up to an older Macbook, and lo and behold: it worked perfectly. I was not only able to recover data, but I could write data to the drive. Nothing appeared wrong with the drive when I plugged it into the old Macbook, but my newer Macbook still would not recognize it. Even my fiance's Windows 7 PC recognized the drive as "?" (since it was formatted for Mac, but hey - it recognized that it existed!).
I decided to re-install the original HDD that came with the 2012 Macbook Pro (the one I removed in favor of the SSD). I was able to re-install the OS and I can boot up at will, but everything is different. The performance issues are extremely noticeable. I can't have more than two programs running at one time without the spinning wheel of death appearing. My boot time went from 9 seconds to 2 minutes. I know that SSDs increase performance, so there is some slight performance downgrade to be expected since I am using a mechanical drive now -- but these are not normal issues. Sometimes I can't even type a web address into Safari without the wheel appearing. iTunes, and specifically the App Store, take minutes to open - and I have no media is on iTunes.
Here's the thing: I have tried just about anything to fix this problem that Google can pull up. I've verified the HDD, I've booted into Safe Mode, reset RAM and cache, run benchmarks and other performance tests, entered all sorts of weird language into Command Prompt, and studied Activity Monitor - I can't find a single red flag that would indicate anything being wrong. It appears to be a perfectly functioning, updated computer.
I'm thinking a piece of hardware failed that triggered the error with the SSD. I'm not really sure though since all of my performance tests indicate perfectly functioning hardware. I'm a little afraid to take it to the Apple store because I know they'll tell me it's my fault for opening the computer and replacing the hard drive in the first place.
Any ideas? At this point anything to salvage this computer would be helpful.

Spin Cycle,
were those other computers which were able to recognize your SSD in its external enclosure also Macs? Do you know if your SSD has its most recent firmware revision installed? (If it doesn’t, its installer can be downloaded from the Samsung SSD firmware page for burning onto a bootable DVD.) I haven’t used the 830 myself, so I don’t know what its reputation is with Macs. I have an 840 PRO in my MacBook Pro, which has been trouble-free for me, but my understanding is that the 840 EVO has had trouble with Macs in its earlier firmware revisions — so I’m wondering if the 830 has a known track record with Macs, good or bad.

Hard drive failure - issues with iTunes data

My hard drive broke and Apple replaced it.
As a consequence I had issues with data in iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto.
iTunes in particular was a problem as the Mac seemed to think tracks were stored in the trash, so I had reloaded tracks to iTunes (which took ages) and then all seemed fine.
My hard drive was then full so I deleted my trash (97Gb which took over 30 hours) and the same issue happened again - about 40% of my iTunes library cannot find the files as it thinks they are stored in the trash.
Any ideas what might be happening?

Ouch...
But before going for an expensive data recovery service, you have some other options.
At first you have to get that harddrive connected to your iMac. There are several solutions to that. One is to buy a SATA USB Docking Bay (see picture). You can put the harddisk in it and connect it via USB to your iMac.
Next you'll need recovery software. Disk Utility will probably not help you, but it is worth the try (because it is free and comes with OSX).
A great piece of software to look at is DiskWarrior. It once helped me accessing a dying External Harddisk and got most of the data off it before it really died. There are more applications, just google 'Data Recovery OSX', and you will find a lot more.
Oh, and make sure to start a good back-up plan for the future. Time Machine is great, or Carbon Copy Cloner, and maybe invest in a decent NAS to copy your data on.
Good luck!

Mid-2011 21.5-in iMac repeated hard drive failures

I have had a string of bad luck with this iMac and its hard drive. A so-called lemon I believe. Using macs since late '80s and owned iMacs, MB Pro and Mac Mini since 2004 or so, but have had any hard drive issues until this one.
This iMac is well-cared for, used in business, but the hard drives only seem to last about a year before they start making noise and the machine crawls to a stop and eventually just won't boot anymore. It is covered under Applecare and the previous two instances were taken care of . My paranoia level is high, so we are constantly backing up, and regularly monitoring this latest drive. The several of the recent Parallels sessions have thrown errors about Parallels not being being able to access the hard drive, or resource temporally unavailable. This led me to go through the system log, which unfortunately has been logging disk errors, e.g., "11/29/14 1:13:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error." etc. And I have been noticing periodic (5 to 10 sec) OS X application freezing (Mac/Excel, Safari, Firefox PDF editor, etc. etc.), just like I would experience when the previous two drives were about to go bad.
I have a lot invested in Apple hardware and would prefer not to just throw this thing in the crapper. But I cannot risk losing valuable work products, and backing up every GD minute is a hassle, not to mention the couple weeks in downtime to bring it down to the nearest Apple store (four hours to Denver or Colo Springs), let them play with it for a week, then driving down again to pickup the box with a hew hard drive, and then restoring all our apps and data.
My questions for those with an answer:
1. I have 14 days left on Applecare. My fear is that if I do not deal with this within the next 14 days, I'll be out of luck when the drive fails. However, if I do bring it in now, I may have difficult demonstrating that there is something wrong if it has not totally failed yet. The Apple store people seem enslaved by the process and to get them to consider anything outside their script is often hard. So if I can't get them to be proactive, what happens when you have failures outside the Apple Care warranty but the failure is the same as previous failures that took place within the Applecare period? Will Apple consider that and do the right thing, or just say, "you got your three years worth, so too bad."
2. What are the chances of convincing Apple to look a little deeper this time? At this point, it seems illogical to me to keep throwing hard drives at this box and expecting a different outcome. Anybody been successful in getting Apple to root cause, or is a new hard drive all I can expect?
3. With respect to #2, are there indeed other hardware issues that can cause damage to a drive? I have a hard time believing that I have just been unlucky with drives three times in a row. So, could there be something about this design or specific hardware within this machine that can keep trashing any hard drive I put in it?
4. Any other options to keep this box alive but avoid the failure issue? Maybe an external firewire HD and boot to that, forget about the internal drive?
Thanks everyone for time in reading this...

The WD drives have been problematic for quite some time as well. They were used in Time Capsules and had some failures too. The link I posted has references to a 1TB disk, so it is not directly related. Repeated failures of disks is still a problem to be resolved. You can always try an SSD which is not mechanical. The GPUs in these iMacs can produce a lot of heat too. Bad thermal paste/contact can also be problematic. The first drive lasted roughly 2 years, but the second lasted roughly 5 months and is likely a refurbished WD.
If you can find a temperature measurement application which can monitor the iMac, the outside and internal temperatures are significantly different. Is there dust/fiber in the environment?

Hard Drive Crashed - Help with restoring settings.

My hard drive crashed a few days ago and after a couple hours on the phone with Apple, it was determined that I had to re-format it and start again. I'm using a third party software package to pull my files off of the corrupted drive and when I'm done, I'll be ready to run the install disks.
I have an older iMac that I migrated most of my data and programs from last December and I was planning on using that computer to bring over most of my settings, etc...
Right now, I'm thinking that there a few settings I'll need to bring over from the corrupted iMac becasue there were major changes from last year (iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, and the Keychain).
What files would I need to search for to update the applications mentioned above (besides the actual itunes songs/videos and iphoto picture)?
Also, is there anything else I'm missing?
It's been a really streeful few days...
Thanks

Our white Intel iMac also froze and won't re-start; even in Safe Mode. Safe Mode accepts pass word; but the restart still alternates between blue and white screen with inoperative title bar and spinning B/W asterisk. The hard drive can be seen on other Intel iMac via Target Mode; but before I do clean install of O/S 10.4.4 and upgrade to 10.4.10 I want to ensure I don't lose preferences, settings etc.
I also don't know what caused the freeze; when I imported the entire HD to an AL iMac; the AL began to display the same problem. Does not Apple software solve this; must I go to third party software?
Apple tech support seems swamped with Leopard and iPhone callers; help here is appreciated.
Mike

Upgrading Hard Drive need help with making it work.

I have just begun copying my HD to a 120GB 2.5" SATA drive.
I'm using Super Duper to copy it, and I understand it will be a bootable disk.
Once it has completed copying, is there anything I need to do to make it the startup disk ?
Do I make it the startup disk before I swap the hard drive out from within System Preferences ?
Also, it is currently called Disk 2 - Will that become the name of my HD (currently obviously called Macintosh HD)
If it is, can I then change the name ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

SuperDuper will make it a bootable disk if that's the backup option you selected. Look at the SD feedback information. It tells you what it will do and will then show the steps checking off each one as they are completed.
All you will need to do is remove the old drive and install the new one. It should be ready to go if you did everything correctly. This includes partitioning the new drive using the GUID partition scheme, setting the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and then Erasing the drive using the Zero Data option.
Be sure to test the cloned drive before installing by booting the computer with it while it's in the external case.
You can rename the drive anything you want.
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How do I connect both iMac (2011) hard drives to backup with Time Machine and Airport Time capsule?

Hi - my iMac has 2 hard drives, 250 Gb solid state and a 2 Tb drive. I'm backing up using time Machine to an Airport time Capsule but only the 250 Gb drive comes up in hte list? All my photos are on the 2 Tb drive (about 120GB worth) and I want a back up for these. I'm running under OS X 10.9.1 Maverick
Any help would be greatly appreaciated!

Ok.. I am surprised..
What did you format the 2TB drive.. I find it hard to imagine you formatted an internal drive anything but Mac OS extended journaled (HFS+) .. but you could have.
Time Machine can only backup HFS+ format drives.
Of course this Mavericks.. and in Mavericks the bugs rein supreme in Time Machine.
Reset TM setup.. See A4 here. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Make sure the 2TB drive is mounted when you redo the TM setup.
To be honest.. I would also buy CCC and do a full clone of the drive..
TM is great for the occasional file loss.. but it is lousy to restore a drive. CCC at the moment is $40 or so and IMHO money well spent.
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I use it but just to say I have no connection to them..

OneKey Recovery System wiped out my hard drive - Please Help with RMA

Hi, I just recently got an IdeaPad S12 netbook.
Last night I tried using the OneKey Recovery System to restore the hard drive to the original factory configuration.
Unfortunately, the restored process did not work and I had to shut down the system.
Now, on boot up, I just get a blank screen with this message:
"Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart"
I cannot boot up in to Windows, or even run the OneKey process again.
I know there has been a documented problem (on forums, not in actual documentation!) that the OneKey system cannot run after hard drive partitions have been resized. However, it is truly a defect in the software to corrupt the entire drive, instead of providing a warning and blocking the process from continuing.
Today is my last day in the 21 day period to get an RMA. I called customer support and they will only issue an RMA with restocking fee. They say I have to go through tech support and have the case documented and approved, including physical inspection (if necessary I think), in order to waive the restocking fee. Considering the OneKey software can produce such disastrous results, I should not have to pay the restocking fee. It seems like a waste of everyone's time and money to send the laptop to tech support, instead of just allowing me to do the return right now.
I'm hoping someone from Lenovo can help me get this RMA approved today and not deal with tech support or restocking fee. Right now I have a 3-pound brick instead of a functioning laptop.
George

Georgewsu,
Thanks for the pointer on the documentation - I'll see what we can do to make it more clear that changing partitions can inhibit OKR from functioning properly.
Systems with no optical drive like the S10 or S12 can be more challenging when trying to recover from this sort of thing - there is a balance, perhaps in expecting a user to get a USB external optical drive and burn recovery media if they are going to change the partitioning of the drive and making netbook class systems available at this price point.
Without intending to sound too harsh, I'm not sure why Lenovo should fairly absorb the cost of the results of the changes you made to the product. If you return a product, we are going to have to refurbish it, re-image and resell at a substantial discount. When you consider the time, the shipping costs, and what we will subsequently get for the product, we are well in the negative territory on the deal.
I think what might be more fair is to contact support and see if the depot can reimage your system under warranty. If so, your system functionality will have been restored - you keep a quality system, and everyone is happy. If you then want to customize your configuration, I would suggest getting a USB optical drive and burn recovery media before making more changes.
Best regards,
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Help with data recovery on failed MBP HD Please

Hello
My MacBook Pro 160 GB froze the other night and I had to hard reset it. Ever since I have not been able to turn it on and log into the OS (Mountain Lion). All I could do was get the Apple logo when you turn the MacBook on or a folder with a question mark (a couple times).
I took it to the Apple store even though I was out of warranty and they still helped (got to love Apple customer service!). The genious plugged in a cable and did his diagnosis and it froze tyring to load the into the hard drive but said that the OS was reconginzed in this diganostic machine so he said it was probably a harware issue and not software.
Long story short, they took it to the back and tried a new Hard drive cable, which was not the issue. They said that they were able to log into the HD in the back and that all my infomation was still on there but it was really slow to use and said I should replace the HD and transfer the data off of that failed drive onto the new one.
However, I dont now how to do this on a Mac. Do I get an enclosure or a "HD sled" as the genious recommended. Do I use software to recover, and is my data really safe? Please anyone, help me out. I have some pictures I really do not want to lose and form now on will make sure I buy an external HD to backup all my data via Time Machine.
Thank you so much.
Will make sure to give you 10 points if you can help me or 5 if you give input.

Buy an enclosure for your old drive, and you will need to buy a new drive to replace it.
How to replace or upgrade a drive in a laptop
Step One: Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Step Two: Remove the old drive and install the new drive. Place the old drive in an external USB enclosure. You can buy one at OWC who is also a good vendor for drives.
Step Three: Boot from the external drive. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager appears. Select the icon for the external drive then click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Step Four: New Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your new hard drive (this is the entry with the
      mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of
      the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive
      is failing or has failed and will need replacing. Otherwise, click on the
      Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from
      the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended
      (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to
      GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and
      wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the
      drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main
      window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the
      Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to
      return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several
      hours depending upon the drive size.
Step Five: Clone the old drive to the new drive
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Check the box labeled Erase destination.
5. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the
      Destination entry field.
6. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the
      Source entry field.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new internal drive. Source means the old external drive.
Step Six: Open the Startup Disk preferences and select the new internal volume. Click on the Restart button. You should boot from the new drive. Eject the external drive and disconnect it from the computer.
The above takes you through the entire process that you need to follow. This assumes you have removed the old drive, installed the new drive in the computer, and installed the old drive in an external enclosure.
Enclosures for FireWire and USB are readily available. You can find only FireWire enclosures, only USB enclosures, and enclosures that feature multiple ports. I would stress getting enclosures that use the Oxford chipsets especially for Firewire drives (911, 921, 922, for example.) You can find enclosures at places such as;
1. Cool Drives
2. OWC
3. Firewire Direct
4. California Drives
5. NewEgg
All you need do is remove a case cover, mount the hard drive in the enclosure and connect the cables, then re-attach the case cover. Usually the only tool required is a small or medium Phillips screwdriver.
The above sites also sell replacement hard drives. You are looking for 2.5" SATA Notebook-sized hard drives and enclosures. If you want good performance spend a little extra on the hard drive. Look for 7200 RPM drives with 16 MB cache. You are looking for a drive with SATA 3.0 Gb/s support with a capacity of around 500 GBs that is not more than 9.5 mm high.
Any cheap USB enclosure will be suitable for the data transfer. You should find one under $25.00.

Need help with data recovery

I accidentally formatted a partition on my ext HDD while trying out Time Machine on my new MBP. Need to recover the partition and erased files urgently.
Just went to try out a trial version of VirtualLab Data Recovery software and it seemed to work. Managed to retrieve some files which were erased. Has anyone ever tried this software? It costs USD99 for 500gb of data. Kind of expensive but I believe will be much cheaper than going to a data recovery centre. Or any other softwares to recommend?

Hi Michael
Thanks. Can this software recover data from external HDD that are corrupted and cannot mount? I've another ext HDD which has been damaged some time back. Brought it to a data recovery centre for a quotation and they've given me a ridiculous quotation! Hence hope to find a good software which could restore both reformatted hard drives and damaged drives.

System Crash resulting in lost work...HELP with data recovery!

I need help. I was working on some art for an event and had a system crash. I was 95% complete with this particular project and am now back to square one unless I can recover all of the data or some of the data. Does anyone know how to recover data in Photoshop CS? I'm desperate!!!

howdy,
Usually it happens wen system crashes then it results into loss of all dat work...
But there are certains recovery tool that are used to recover lost data.
I think if u follow the following steps den u'll definately get a sol to this problem..
1.Install a recovery tool on some other system.
2.Place ur hard disc as secondry disc on this system
3.select ur crashed disc
4.Scan it through the recovery tool
5.and recover the lost data
u can use any of recovery tools like Advanced Disk Recovery,i found it worth...u can also try this....it is available on tucows

Help with Data Recovery

i put a password a long time ago, and i today my blackberry 8330 asked for it and i didnt know it and now it erased all my data how do i recover it back?

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Sorry to hear your situation.!
You can restore your latest backup from Desktop Manager.
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Recovering System After Hard Drive Failure.

Hi,
I have an M8530F and the hard drive suffered complete failure. I was planning on purchasing a new hard drive for this machine and order recovery discs. Will the recovery discs install on this machine when a new (non-original) hard drive is installed? Thanks.

Yes, purchasing a new hard drive and recovering with HP recovery discs should work fine. It is best to use the same size hard drive as factory installed as issues may otherwise occur.
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Please could somebody help me I have an iMac which came with Tiger 10.4.10 installed I have lost my disks and I need to re-install after a hard drive failure. Where can I find this? I will upgrade to Snow Leopard after but I cannot go straight to SL

Please could somebody help me I have an iMac which came with Tiger 10.4.10 installed I have lost my disks and I need to re-install after a hard drive failure. Where can I find this? I will upgrade to Snow Leopard after but I cannot go straight to SL

You can go strait to SL, all you need is a retail SL DVD available from Apple for $20. The US online store has them at:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

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