[clue-tech] Data recovery recommendations?

Dennis J Perkins dennisjperkins at comcast.net
Sat Aug 7 18:10:08 MDT 2010


On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 17:51 -0600, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> I have a co-worker who has a Mac that had (what sounds like) an epic
> failure. Any thoughts on what steps they might take? Any local expertise to
> recommend on where they can take the machine to have the data recovered?
> 
> I thought about trying to help out myself via Knoppix or the like, but I'm
> not sure I want to do that. From what I understand,the drive itself is making
> serious noises, and actually running it normally may cause even more damage?
> 
> 


What kind of noises?  It probably had a head crash, but bad bearings are
another possibility.  Either requires a new drive.
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