Trying to survive HD crash-need some help

My kid went to boot his Macbook last PM and spun then went black. I booted from Leopard Disc and the HD has failed and none of the repairs are successful. Backup? Heck no.
I took the HD out and put it in my Macbook to see if I could save it-no joy. I installed it in an external USB drive and the files and Apps were visible. I can copy them to the other Macbook from the external but will they now be on the other drive or ??? Once I replace the HD, can I just do a transfer to the new HD and have solved the problem?
Thanks.
JB

You need to copy over some files then try to open them. Even if they show up with a badly damaged disk the files themselves could be damaged. If they copy over an you can open them then it should be OK.
Don't do too much with the damaged drive because each time you try to use it you could be damaging more files. There is disk recovery software but if you can copy them over you won't need to spend the $100 for it.
You can also take it to a disk recovery service but that will get a lot more expensive than $100. The one time I did it it cost $800 but all my files were recovered, which was about a year's worth of work for one client.
I then went out and bought external drives and cloned everything with SuperDuper!

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Hi Pradeep,
Please have a look into the below site which might be useful
Enhancing a Standard Search Help
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/daeda0d7-0701-0010-8caa-
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/21ee93446011d189700000e8322d00/frameset.htm
A search help exit is a function module for making the input help process described by the search help more flexible than possible with the standard version.
This function module must have the same interface as function module F4IF_SHLP_EXIT_EXAMPLE. The search help exit may also have further optional parameters (in particular any EXPORTING parameters).
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Note: The source text and long documentation of the above-specified function module (including the long documentation about the parameters) contain information about using search help exits.
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timepoints
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***Reward points if found useful
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* PipedOutputStream outputPipe = new PipedOutputStream();*
* ObjectOutputStream oos = null;*
* ReceiverThread rt = new ReceiverThread(outputPipe);*
// Start the thread -- First try*
* Thread t = new Thread(rt);*
t.start();*
// Wrap the output pipe with an ObjectOutputStream*
try*
oos = new ObjectOutputStream(outputPipe);*
catch (IOException e)*
System.out.println(e);*
// Start the thread -- Second try*
//Thread t = new Thread(rt);*
//t.start();*
/** Send an object over the pipe. In reality this object will be a
class that contains control or status information */
try
if (!oos.equals(null))
oos.writeObject(new String ("Test"));
catch (IOException e)
try
Thread.sleep(5000);
catch (InterruptedException e)
I read somewhere that it matters where you start the thread relative to where you wrap piped streams with the object streams. So, I tried the two places I felt were obvious to start the thread. These are noted in the comments. Here is the code for the thread.
package playingwiththreads1;
import java.io.*;
public class ReceiverThread implements Runnable {
private PipedInputStream inputPipe = new PipedInputStream();
private ObjectInputStream inputObject;
ReceiverThread (PipedOutputStream outputPipe)
System.out.println("Thread initialization - start");
try
inputPipe.connect(outputPipe);
inputObject = new ObjectInputStream(inputPipe);
catch (IOException e)
System.out.println(e);
System.out.println("Thread initialization - complete");
public void run()
System.out.println("Thread started");
try
if (inputObject.available() > 0)
System.out.println(inputObject.read());
catch (IOException e)
System.out.println(e);
Through testing I have determined that no matter where I start the thread, the thread never gets past the "inputObject = new ObjectInputStream(inputPipe);" assignment.
Could someone please help me with this? There are other ways for me to write this program, but this is the one that I would like to make work.
Many thanks in advance,
Rob Hix
Edited by: RobertHix on Oct 6, 2009 3:54 AM

Thanks for the help, but that did not work. I tried flushing the ObjectOutputStream and it is still hanging when initializing the thread.
Here is a better look at the code since I was helped to figure out how to insert it:
The main method:
package playingwiththreads1;
import java.io.*;
public class PlayingWithThreads1 {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PipedOutputStream outputPipe = new PipedOutputStream();
        ObjectOutputStream oos = null;
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        Thread t = new Thread(rt);
        t.start();
        /* Send an object over the pipe. In reality this object will be a
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package playingwiththreads1;
import java.io.*;
public class ReceiverThread implements Runnable {
    private PipedInputStream inputPipe = new PipedInputStream();
    private ObjectInputStream inputObject;
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        catch (IOException e)
            System.out.println(e);
        System.out.println("Thread initialization - complete");
    public void run()
        System.out.println("Thread started");
        try
            if (inputObject.available() > 0)
                System.out.println(inputObject.read());
        catch (IOException e)
            System.out.println(e);
}Does anyone else have and ideas?

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