London Mac Data recovery
- Started
- Last post
- 11 Responses
- dee-dubs
Has anyone got any london based recommendations for anyone that can retrieve data.
my wifes macBook hard drive just packed in and I had no joy with using disk repair utilities. Unfortunately it hasn't been backed up for a year and has a lot of photos of our daughter on it that we don't have elsewhere!!
Thanks
D
- inddg0
If you have another mac, you could connect your wifes to it in targeted diskmode, then use photorec to recover the data. if it's a true hard drive failure, like it's clicking and making weird noises you could use ddrecover as well. they are both command line tools, but pretty easy to get working.
- inddg0
very important, do not do anything more to the disk, other than try to read it, dont repair it, format it, etc... the more you write to it the worse recovery can be.
You may also want to try a booting Live Linux CD, Like Ubuntu or Knoppix. You may be able to recover data that way
- ribit0
Sounds like you may have tried it, but I can really recommend Data Rescue 3 if it works enough to scavenge images.
- dee-dubs0
have tried a few ways to view the HD with the help of inddg, so far no joy.
Am now trying to remove the drive and stick it in an enclosure just in case its the logic board or some other bit of hardware that has caused this ....
- dee-dubs0
OK so HD in enclosure didn't work either. Think I am going to have to take it to a specialist.
Does anyone have any recommendations on people they have used before? I was considering taking it to Mac1 but have never used them for anything like this before.
- Should read before hitting Broadcast, apologies for the writing style of a 5 year olddee-dubs
- dee-dubs0
After exhausting all avenues it seems the drive is beyond repair/recovery.
So my next question is, if an iphone has had a factory reset performed on it but then nothing else done to it, is there anyway to salvage data that was on it prior. (ie photos)?
- isakosmo0
Stop fiddling with it yourself (you might damage it more) and go for hard drive data recovery. It's happened to me twice. Will cost you £££ but if you're ready to pay for it... I used these guys.
http://www.fields-data-recovery.…
And NOT http://www.rapid-data.net/ (i used them the first time and they are terrible customer service).
Unfortunately there's no one cheap out there.Good luck.
- isakosmo0
Oh and double backup next time... I learnt the hard way.
- dee-dubs0
I did stop fiddling and took it to the experts, preparing myself to part with £££s.
Anyway, they thought the hard drive had a fault with one of the reading heads that fly above the surface of the spinning discs, reading the data, but once they got the new parts in they now think that there may be some minor physical damage to the platters that is causing the problem as the new parts stopped working as soon as they were on...long and short of it is its fucked.So back to my last ditch effort, does anyone think/know whether the data/photos may be buried somewhere on the iphone?
- hans_glib0
http://modmyi.com/forums/file-mo…
might be of some use?
- dee-dubs0
^^
thanks hans_glib, thankfully we never upgraded her phones software so there may be a chance I can still jailbreak it in order to do this.