My hard drive crashed on my macbook pro and I had a new one installed and they were unable to get my pictures off of it. Is there anyone who could help? I'm going to lose all my memories of my kids! I got my old hard drive
My hard drive crashed on my macbook pro so i had a new one installed and they couldn't get my pictures off. I dont want to lose all my memories! They gave me back my old hard drive. Is there anyone that could help me?
I think how you understand the value of having backups. All you can do is:
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as MAC Data Recovery, 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. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads. Recovery software usually provide trial versions that enable you to determine if the software would help before actually paying for it. Beyond this or if the drive has completely failed, then you would need to send the drive to a recovery service which is very expensive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
You will need an external enclosure for the old drive so you can connect it to the computer in order to try the recovery software before you buy it. But if they don't work then you will need to send the drive to a recovery service such as Drive Savers.
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Groeten en dank alvast.Dutch to English translation
Hello,
New to this forum as it has a burning question: after years we have 2 PowerMac G4 divide have now bought an iMac G5 so we want to share with the G4. Now we get only the old Mac does not boot. Several combinations tried but nothing works. Alternately, we get a bluescreen with arrows or a gray screen with a folder with question mark. Any ideas what we can do? Apple itself does not support more equipment from 7 years and / or older. It is also possible to the network or something, I have not connected. The iMac G5 also running 10.4.11.
Any help is welcome!
Regards and thanks already.
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English to Dutch translation
Probeer het houden van de Option / Alt toets ingedrukt te houden bij het opstarten, is de Startup Manager toont alle schijven op te starten vanaf?
Can you boot from your Install CD/DVD by holding the c key down?
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columbus new boy wrote:
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