MacBook got smashed. Took hard drive to Apple Store, guy tried to extract photos, said drive was bent. Any suggestions as to where to take a damaged drive to get out photos? Upset bcuz it's a year of our baby's photos, not backed up anywhere!!!!
My Macbook got smashed. We took the hard drive out and to an Apple store where a guy tried to extract the info we wanted. He said he couldn't because it was a bit damaged and the only other option we had was to send it back to the company to see if they could get the info out. I am very upset because it has a year's worth of baby photos that I hadn't backed up yet. Any suggestions as to what to do?
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USB SATA/IDE adapter (connects internal drive to a computer)
http://www.amazon.com/USB-2-0-SATA-5-25-Adapter/dp/B000J2GUS0
and/or
DataRescue (run from a Mac) Reads the 1's and 0's of files themselves, even if the disk is reformatted.
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
A Mac's boot drive is formatted HFS+ Journaled. To be read by a Windows PC needs MacDrive installed on the PC.
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive
The above methods are available locally by your neighborhood computer specialist.
Or if the drive doesn't work at all, you need to send it out.
Platter dissection
If you willing to spend some big bucks, like thousands of dollars.
http://www.salvagedata.com/
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