Q. My MacBook overheated and committed suicide. It no longer charges or boots. Can I take the hard drive out of my MacBook and put it in my friend's MacBook and have it boot so I can get my data off of it?
I know with windows OS if you swap out the primary HD it won't boot without reformatting. Is it the same for macs?
I don't really want to spend money on an external enclosure
I know with windows OS if you swap out the primary HD it won't boot without reformatting. Is it the same for macs?
I don't really want to spend money on an external enclosure
A. You really dont need to go through removing both hard drives. Instead go to Fry's or bestbuy and buy a USB to Sata/IDE/EIDE converter. These come in handy and are very cheap. Remove your hard drive and plug it into the converter and then plug in the USB to his Mac and transfer the data to an external source. You could also buy an external enclosure and just keep your hard drive in there, but you will only be able to read the contents and access the data on a Mac OSX or Ubuntu type system. To answer your question about swapping drives if they are pretty much identical in specs yes it will work.
How can I retrieve deleted files from my computer (Mac)?
Q. I accidentally trashed important files, then emptied the trash can. What software can be used on Mac OSX to recover them again? Or is there any other way of recovering them?
A. Stay away from symantec products, they'll do more harm than good. Try with one of these data recovery tools.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1133
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24747
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19441
Or you can hire DriveSavers, call them for a free estimate. But don't be surprised about the quote.
http://www.drivesavers.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1133
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24747
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19441
Or you can hire DriveSavers, call them for a free estimate. But don't be surprised about the quote.
http://www.drivesavers.com/
Mac OSX: Can a file that was in a replaced directory be recovered if the new directory did not contain it?
Q. I recently found that I was not able to open a file I had created or the application it was written by. So, thinking the application was corrupted I downloaded a new copy from the vendor to replace the existing one to see if I could open the file. However, I was so distracted by the installation process that I forgot that my personal file was located in the application directory I was replacing with the same name. It was only after looking in the new directory that I realized what had happened. AAAAARG! So, now I have a working copy of the app but have lost my file. The exact opposite condition I was in before. It is possible in Mac OSX that my file from the replaced directory may still be on the drive and recoverable? The new directory did not have a file in it by the same name. Or, is everything within the previous directory lost when it is replaced? Thanks in advance.
A. Ignore Mr. Ryan above because:
A. The same thing can happen on any computer.
B. He doesn't know the difference between your and you're.
Your file may still be on the drive, but the more you use the computer, the greater the chance that it will be overwritten. It makes no difference that there was no file of the same name in the new folder. The space that the file occupied is considered free space when the file is deleted.
There are data recovery programs available for Mac. The commercial ones tend to be expensive, but some offer a demo mode that will show if files are recoverable. You then pay for the full version to actually recover the files. The problem is that if the file was on your internal drive, (where the applications usually are) you might very well overwrite your lost file with the recovery app...
If it's a really important, irreplaceable file: Stop using the computer, download a recovery app to a different Mac, connect yours to it via Firewire and start it in target mode (holding down T). Your Mac will then become an external FW disk on the other machine, where you can run the recovery program. IMO, that is your only hope.
Do we need to talk about backing up? ;-)
A. The same thing can happen on any computer.
B. He doesn't know the difference between your and you're.
Your file may still be on the drive, but the more you use the computer, the greater the chance that it will be overwritten. It makes no difference that there was no file of the same name in the new folder. The space that the file occupied is considered free space when the file is deleted.
There are data recovery programs available for Mac. The commercial ones tend to be expensive, but some offer a demo mode that will show if files are recoverable. You then pay for the full version to actually recover the files. The problem is that if the file was on your internal drive, (where the applications usually are) you might very well overwrite your lost file with the recovery app...
If it's a really important, irreplaceable file: Stop using the computer, download a recovery app to a different Mac, connect yours to it via Firewire and start it in target mode (holding down T). Your Mac will then become an external FW disk on the other machine, where you can run the recovery program. IMO, that is your only hope.
Do we need to talk about backing up? ;-)
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