WD My Book not readable - data recovery possible?

While attempting to repartion my WD My Book, the partioning process froze - very stupidly, I eventually pulled out the drive.
Now the disk isn't being recognised at all. Plugging in, I get 'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer'. All options in Disk Utility are unavailable: I can't verify or repair disk permissions, I can't verify or repair disk. Disk Warrior and TechTool Pro haven't seemed to be able to help.
Is there any, any way I could recover some of the data on the drive?
Thanks.

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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.

Macbook Pro hard drive failed, data recovery possible?

Hi everyone,
I have a 13 inch MBP i purchased in 2010. Late last year I experienced some issues with the computer generally slowing down and one day it would not start up, getting to the gray screen with the apple logo and loading wheel. Contacting apple support I was talked through the process of copying my hard drive contents onto an external harddrive, re installing the operating system, and then copying the contents from the external hard drive back to my internal hard drive. Then after up dating the operating system (I think to snow leopard :S) I took it to a genius bar appointment and the guy did a few tests and said my hard drives looks ok and suggested upgrading the RAM from 4gb to 8gb, which I did with no noticable improvement. But seemed to work ok for another 8 months or so.
So last week after using my MBP alot during end of semester, it suddenly turned off while using google sketch up. I tried restarting a few times which did not help. Then I searched through apple support to find an answer. I managed to get into disk utility, which told me the disk was OK. I then tried to re install my operating system which took a very long time and failed twice before getting no response at all I booked another genius bar appointment.
The guy did some tests a very quickly came to the conclusion that it was my hard drive that had failed. He gave me the option to replace the harddrive for $200, which I think I will do, however as STUPIDLY did not have any of my data backed up, I am desperate to try and recover a few important documents and my iphoto library, so have put off replacing the hard drive until I try to recover my data.
So the apple guy gave me two programs to try and recover my data. He said its a confusing an tedious process especially with no experience but I am willing to give it a go. The two programs are DISC WARRIOR and EASEUS. I know disc warrior costs money and easeus is free. He should me how to boot my MBP into target disc mode, and sold me the appropriate cable (initially a firewire cable, but then told me a thunderbolt cable would be more efficient and was cheaper.. Im sure they are right but can anyone confirm that a thunderbolt cable can be used for what I am trying to do) to connect my MBP in target disc mode, to another macbook pro, and it should connect as an external hard drive. Then with one of these programs try to recover some of my files
He said what I can recover just depends on the extent of the damage to the hard drive and what sections have failed. I am waiting for a friend to use their MBP in a few days to download one of these programs and connect my MBP.
Does anyone have any experience or advise with using either of these programs recommended by the apple guy or anyother programs that I could use? Or any advice at all in how I should go about trying to recover my files by using another Macbook pro and target disc mode? or anything else that might be helpful?
ANY help would be much appreciated guys!

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Data recovery, possible to get the file structure back as well?

Hi Apple Smarties,
I closed my laptop lid on my external LaCie drive without ejecting the drive first (smart one!). After that the external drive wouldn't mount. I've used Data Rescue 3 to recover all the files from the drive... however it's just lumping all the files into one big batch :-( ...anybody know if it's possible to get the files into the correct files structure they were at before the drive got corrupted?
Assistance would be HUGELY appreciated.
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Thank you Barry. Yes, Comcast is my mail provider. It is a POP account.
Now, if you could point me in the right direction to do that re-build, I would be ever so grateful. I did use the "rebuild" button on the Mail tool bar for that box and it did not help. Perhaps there is something else I could do?
As I mentioned, I am very new to the Mac world, and I get a little lost. Well, at age 73, I guess that's not hard to do! Been on Windows forever so lots of the terminology in Apple is quite different for me.
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Search should look at address book notes & application data

Search is basically useless to me, I used to have the ability to categorize my address book, or at the very least make a note in a contact that was searchable. (For example, "work" in the note section of a contact would result in search results of just the contacts with this note, go figure!) I also have lots of stuff in alternate notes programs that is not searchable. Not much of a reach to make data entered into an "i-device" searchable, I think a few software engineers should be able to tackle this insurmountable problem! I paid $500 for a device that has fewer options than my Palm Pilot did 8 years ago!(and in regards to searches, is absolutely inferior)Sounds like the only way to get apple to address an issue is to make lots of noise in this support forum. Sorry to waste anyone's time.

I just had this same problem. I use multiple mac computers that I sync manually because of a previous idisk issue. I noticed as I updated my cloud, the search function in address book quit working properly on each computer.
So created a new group list and I attempted to copy "All Contacts" into that group. It would not copy all my contacts into that group in one paste function. So I took all the the first 25 names and copied them. That worked. Then I moved to the next 26-50 names and so on. I noticed when I got to the fourth group of copying contacts that it did not paste and froze the application.
I quit address book, reopened it. All the contacts before the the fourth group were in the file. The search function worked on those names. I then went card by card and found one that had a "string" of data listed where an email address should I have been. So I deleted the corrupt card and now my address book search is working again.
Here is the short solve. Look for a corrupt card in your address book. I found the corrupt card by trying to copy it over to a new address group. The card that was corrupt just happened to be one that I had updated in the last week or so...
Hope this helps.

Address Book Not Displaying Data

Hi,
This morning I ran 10.4.8 and security updates on my MBP. Now when I open Address Book, I can see all my contacts listed, but not any of the data when I click on a name or search for one.
I have deleted prefs and tried reverting to AddressBook.data.previous in my user Library. I have also replaced my Address Book from my .Mac acct.
It's not that I have no contacts, but that I can't view them. Double clicking does nothing and editing simply depresses the Edit button, but I still see nothing.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Another relatively straightforward thing that I’m realizing now you appear to not have tried yet (it could be a font issue, but I’m not sure) would be reinstalling the Combo Update for the type of computer and the version of Mac OS X you’re using, unless this is the version of Mac OS X that came with your computer:
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Basically, you should verify/repair the startup disk before installing the update (which you’ve said you’ve already done), no applications should be running while installing it, and you may experience unexpected results if you have third-party system software modifications (not normal applications) installed.

Stolen ipad recovered - new passcode -data recovery possible?

Hi, My deceased father's ipad was stolen from my elderly mother and recovered. There was never a passcode on it to make access easy. After recovery, there is a passcode. The ipad was never backed up and the ipad was never synced to itunes , nor to the cloud. Is there anyway to recover the photos?

unfortunately not.
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4.1. I had a backup power supply failure and a project was open. I re-started the computer and the project loaded, but as a 'Copy Of My Project' with a disclaimer. Still, it looked fine, rendered fine, and saved fine.
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Try creating a new project and importing the busted project into it. Using your preferred import method, just navigate to the .prproj file and select it for import. If all goes well, the sequences and all relevant media will come into the new project and be stored in a bin with the same name as the project. Open it up and find your sequences there.
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If I add a picture from my Address Book to a mail message, anyone clicking on the picture can see teh entire address book entry, including private infor, passwords, etc. How do I avoid this?

delete and re add the contact?
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General question about data recovery from raid on windows server !

hi,
I like to buy data recovery software for windows server to recover data with any raid( or whitout raid
so the company tells me you should be sure the Raid can be recognized correctly as local disk drive first, otherwise, our product wil not help you. so if I want to recover data of my customers which has windows server with any raid form ,how
I can make this server harddisks(which is raid 1,5,6 ect)recognized coorectly as local disk drive.
thanks
johan
h.david

I have myself NAS which is connected to my computer through router.
I am started smal bussines ,and I want to use also data recovery service for deleted documents,photo's,formatted drives ect.for my customers .things that accidantally errased from raid or non raid
so I found some data recovery softwares
1-stellarphoenix data recover,which has remote acces and netwerk acces.
2--ease use data recovery software. I liked this second software,but they telling me like this,
you should be sure the Raid can be recognized correctly as local disk drive first, otherwise, our product wil not help you.
I understand the both situations you telling me.thanks
but my question is can I not run data recovery software from bootable usb stick on the smal servers like essential with raid to recover data in case of any problems that caused data loose.
I know if I install data recovery software on the server to scan it ,it wil rewrite some places on harddisk and that is not wise.
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Affordable data recovery service?

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Does anyone know how good/reliable the $250 services are? I'd appreciate any advice--thx

I would not use tekserve they are not a data recovery company and either use some high end sw or send it out to a real dr company. I just used ontrack and got a 1200$ quote for my 1Tb raid-0, haven't done it yet

External HDD "not readable" - Any way to recover data?

I have a MacBook Pro with 10.6.4
The external HDD is a 320GB 2.5" Samsung. Using my MacBook Pro, I formatted it to have a 250GB partition for TimeMachine, with two other partitions for Windows computers as I was traveling without my MacBook and needed to backup photos.
I used the HDD successfully for 3 months with no problems. But when I returned and tried to put everything on my Mac, Disk Utility told me I needed to verify and repair the disk. As it wouldn't mount, I performed the tasks that DU suggested, but now I am stuck with four partitions(?) which are not readable. And now DU does not give me any options.
See screenshots here:
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The disk spins up normally, with no abnormal noises. I suspect there were plenty of Windows viruses (as I had to use many PCs over the 3 months), but the last time I used the drive successfully, it was on a PC and I successfully transferred items onto it.
Please could you advise on actions or further diagnostics I should do. Luckily I bought a 16GB flash drive to make a 2nd backup of photos, but there still important documents which I need to recover off the HDD.
Thank you in advance.
Stuart

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The Windows partitioning complicates matters. Some data recovery tools for the Mac include Prosoft Data Rescue, Subrosasoft Filesalvage, Boomerang's Boomerang, and Stellar Data Data Recovery tools. If none of them can read it you may need to take it to a professional data recovery like http://www.drivesavers.com/ which can cost thousands of dollars.
In the future always backup your data regularly*:
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I just used stellar phoenix mac data recovery and it seemed to work but now my files won't open. Even though they are "jpeg, mov" files the error message is could not be opened. The movie's file format isn't recognized. " Any help or are they corrupted

I just used stellar phoenix mac data recovery and it seemed to work but now my files won't open. Even though they are "jpeg, mov" files, the error message is "could not be opened". The movie's file format isn't recognized. " Any help or are they corrupted?

Sounds to me like the file is probably corrupt. If you had hard drive corruption or damage, that could easily result in recovered files not being fully intact. If you were trying to recover accidentally deleted files, it's possible they might have been partially overwritten before recovering. There are never any guarantees with file recovery.
Without more information on the circumstances that led you to try recovery, it's hard to give advice on what to try from here. You could always try another file recovery tool, like Data Rescue 3. Just be sure you're taking appropriate precautions when doing recovery. See Recovering deleted files.

Data recovery options if drive not accessible through Target Disk Mode

I have the classic data recovery question: my computer seems to have failed, and I'd like to save some data. Thanks in advance for any advice.
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I know I used to have a copy of Disk Warrior, but can't find it and it's probably out of date. I downloaded the Data Rescue demo, but it only got partway through scanning the disk and then failed. It told me to 'clone' the disk, but after about three days of trying still wasn't making much progress on it, so I gave up.
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HELP! Does anyone know a "Data Recovery Expert" for I-Phone? - My calender disappeared during transfer of data from my old I-Phone 4 to my new I-Phone 5s. It was on both I-Phones then vanished. (It was evidently not syncing during back-ups on the laptop)

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What calendar were you syning to? Outlook? Google? Something else? The directions on how to resync vary a bit.

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