Mac Pro hard drive failure how to recover data

I have a 2007 Mac Pro with four hard drives in it. One of my drives had a message the other day indicating I/0 error, it came back several times, and now I don't see the hard drive on my desktop.
Is there a way I can recover the data from this drive?

ALSOFT DISK WARRIOR - their techs have helped even where a drive was unable to mount.
a disk to disk sector copy can be of use $500 range
"Disk drive recovery" is always a hot topic on http://www.macintouch.com
At leas DR3 is demo to see if it can find files.
SoftRAID http://www.softriad.com can often take over and provide the ability - email their support, the have a demo, program is about $140

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Macbook Pro hard drive failing, how to recover data?

My 2 year old MBP refused to boot up this morning. I was told at the Genius Bar that the hard drive is on its way out.
It is still able to mount when hooked up to another machine but apparently the geniuses don't do data recovery. I was refferred to a data recovery service or another option was to "hook the drive up to another machine" via some sort of docking station to lift the data off myself.
I have no idea where to start with this, does anyone know how I could accomplish this myself? Thanks in advance for any tips.

I hope that will work out for you, but I have very little confidence that all will go well that way.
Your situation is one in which it makes very good sense to ignore the warranty on your hard drive, replace it yourself at your own expense, and thus be able to keep the old drive — which Apple will keep, if Apple replaces it. Once you have a new drive in your MBP and an OS up and running on it, then you can connect the old drive to it and see what can be recovered. If you hand the machine over to Apple for the replacement and lose the old drive, and then you discover that some of your files in Mac-only formats have been corrupted by being written to a Windows file system on your HP computer, you'll have no chance of recovering them.
The way to avoid all this, of course, was to keep up-to-date backups on one or more external hard drives so it wouldn't be necessary to recover anything from the failed drive. Once you get your new drive, do that.

Macbook Pro Hard drive, removed, how to recover data with PC

My MacBook was damaged. 2011 Late Model. I removed the hard drive and placed it in a sabrent enclosure. Plugged in to a PC and learned that i cannot get the data from it. Any help? Thank you.

If you have a friend with Mac, you could copy the data to another USB disk formatted as FAT32. You can then read it on your PC. The problem with this is that FAT32 requires all files to be smaller than 4GB and there are restrictions on the file names. This might be OK depending on whether you have any big files.
Another possibility would be to plug the Mac disk into a friend's Mac and then FTP (e.g. using "sftp") to the Mac from your PC. This way you can retrieve the files without the need for another disk.

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Another thing you can do in Lion (and ML) is click on the "Info" button in Disk Utility to get the SMART status of the drive.It's more detailed now than it used to be and it might tell you if something is wrong.
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They have a free hard drive troublleshooting download book there. I reccommend people download that before asking questionis because there are tons of problems that can act like hard drive problems when there's nothing wrong with the system at all. For example, how full is the drive? How many applications are running? What's the status of Spotlight indexing? How many apps are you running? How much memory do you have?
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I have an older Macbook Pro that I want to bring back to life.
All indications point to full hard drive failure.
How do I confirm that the drive needs to be replaced?

Welcome dadzpony,
The simplest way is to start it up with the original disks. Go to Disk Utility and try to repair the original drive. If Disk Utility can't repair it then it's probably dead.
If you had a drive in an external enclosure with an appropriate OS you could boot with that also. Hold "option" down while booting and select the drive you want to boot from.
The HD in this machine is easy to replace. Go here for instructions:
www.ifixit.com/Device/MacBook_Pro

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Hi everyone, I have a June 2009 MBP that stopped turning on the other day and it just sits on a gray screen when trying to boot up. I had it taken in to a small little authorized Apple repair shop since I am living out in BFE and they said it has a hard drive failure which is causing the problems. They said there is no way to recover the data. Is that right? I'd imagine there has to be someway to recover it. Is there somewhere I can send it in or something? At this point even if it were to cost a lot I'd like to get the data off of it if there is the possibility.
Inb4: should've backed it up!

You may be able to boot from an external hard drive and repair the disk enough to copy the data from it, even if it will no longer boot. There are a number of hard drive recovery services. Apple even lists a couple of them (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3974) that are authorized to recover data from hard drives without voiding the warranty. The warranty is not an issue with a machine from 2009, but those are high quality, reputable companies.
Most such companies have you send them the hard drive and they will give you an estimate of how much it will cost to recover the data, if possible. Some people have reported that Data Rescue 3 comes with a coupon for free diagnostics and $100 off data recovery from The Data Rescue Center. That was a couple of years ago. I don't know if the same deals are in place now.

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Thirty percent of HDDs fail within 3 years. Your case is not uncommon. Furthermore, Apple does not make hard drives. They purchase them from hard drive mfgrs. So, why would this be Apple's fault? Despite what you would prefer to believe, it does happen. Pay the money and replace the drive or just sit there and curse your computer for no longer working because you think someone is out for your money and lying to you.

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It is common for a 15" Macbook Pro hard drive to crash after 3 months? How does Apple Support generally fix? Genuis bar seemed overwhelmed by holiday crowds and recommended an $8k 3rd party vendor.

"Any disk can fail at any time."
Over a large sample, the drives used are extremely reliable. You did not have a large sample, you had ONE drive.
Now you are much smarter than you were before this disaster. Apple will not pay for your data recovery. You (and everyone) need a backup solution.
Apple provides an excelent backup solution called Time Machine, that can do hourly backups to an external drive without disturbing your current work. Buy yourself an external drive at least twice as large as the built-in. Turn on Time machine, make sure it is working, plug it in at least daily, and then don't worry about it any more.

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If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
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After hard drive failure, need to sync data

Following a hard drive failure I need to re-establish syncing between my desktop and Firefox Home on my iPhone. None of the routines for "add a device" or "my account" seem to work as advertised. "Settings" on my iPhone shows me signed in but gives me no other options, e.g., the option to open my account. The only buttons on the "Settings" page are "Sign Out," "About," and "Refresh." "Sign Out" warns me that doing so will erase all my data on the iPhone. Any suggestions how to re-establish Firefox Home appreciated.

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It seems that your iPhone is properly connected to the Sync server and that you need to add your computer to your previous account. In order to do so:
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How can I back up a MacBook Air on a Mac Pro Hard Drive using Time Machine?

Want to back up a MacBook Air on a Mac Pro with a spare hard drive. Sharing allows Time Machine to find the hard drive, but get a drive busy message when time machine tries to back up onto the drive.
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How can I repair a RAID 0 on mac pro hard drives?

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