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