Help...Rescue of Data from Macbook HDD

[Toypop]

Woman at work had a Macbook and spilt her wine on it. The thing went off and wouldn't come back on.

She bought a new PC but had photos on her Macbook HDD which she desperately wanted.

She contacted one place that wanted £250 to recover them.

Well I removed her HDD as I have an adapter at home which I use so that I can take HDD's out of my old PC's and basically reuse them as external hard drives. You know a SATA/IDE to USB converter.

I connect it to the Macbook HDD and turned it on. The drive started spinning up but my PC wouldn't detect the drive and it sounded like the head was aimlessly seeking.

I assume it was obviously because of some difference between Mac drives and PC drives.

So the drive is working it would seem, is there any device I or she can use to get jpg's off it etc? Preferably without finding someone else with a Mac but if it comes to that then so be it.

 

[sn00p]

If the drive sounds like it's aimlessly seeking after power-up then it's fucked.

 

[Toypop]

Well it wasn't contaminated by wine so I think the drive is ok. More of an issue was that it was being connected to a PC with a SATA to USB PC device!

 

[McBunny]

nah there is no difference in the drives at all

 

[MonkeyKnifeFight]

no difference in drives but a pc wont mount a osx journaled hd!! send it to us at western computers we can do data recovery for £60+vat

If the drive is clicking it is screwed, but by the sounds of the damage to the computer we are confident we can retrieve the info.

email bristol@western.co.uk if interested

 

[Toypop]

Cheers mate I will pass that on to her in work tomorrow, do you have a website or something I can link her to as well?

 

[MonkeyKnifeFight]

yea no probs, you can have a look at www.western.co.uk or call 01179 225 661 and have a chat with our service department