Comments on: Crash

By: Robin of Locksley

Robin of Locksley — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:20:43 +0000

i have seen some horribly mangled lappys where the data was still quite recoverable. No vomiting yet, i would be willing to bet you can get that valuable data off. Now, once this is done (dont blame Apple for gravity!) backity mac is a great full backup utility, or use the native apple time machine. HDs are dirt cheap, you can get a terra for 70 bucks with out even trying!.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:34:01 +0000

I know that feeling. I remember the day my new MacBook Pro became a MacBook Water. Similar to the MacBook Air except it still looks like a MacBook Pro just waterlogged. Luckily a day at the geek store and I was back up and running. Hope you are able to get the files off of it. Losing photos can be very painful.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:17:10 +0000

using OSX in vmware (though thoroughly agianst the EULA) might be your best option. Just set up Ubuntu to run in the most power economical way you can manage. Unfortunatley the Vmware Converter is only for Windows or Linux, unless someone has hacked it, or can get it to work on a Mac?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:37:07 +0000

Hey Johnny,
Seeing that you are in Uganda, there is an Apple Retail Store. If you go to Garden City there is one called “Elite Computers”. Try there and see. Perhaps they can do something about your mac or perhaps they will have one you can afford. Its worth a shot…. :) If its just a hard disk problem that is the problem, it would be a matter of getting another hard disk you can just pop in after you have recovered your data using Robby’s suggestion.

By: Bryce Alexander

Bryce Alexander — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:01:39 +0000

Ubuntu, you can even make the desktop act a lot like OSX. (kinda sorta). Or you can load up a vmware image of OSX and run it on linux using player.

By: Arenlor

Arenlor — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:57:07 +0000

I second spinrite. I also suggest trying a different OS such as BSD or Linux. I really like Ubuntu myself.

By: Robby

Robby — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:02:37 +0000

If you can get the disk to spin, (even in a different box) Check out spinrite for hard disk recovery. It might just make it possible to recover your lost data. If you want some more help with it let me know, I’ve recovered some almost impossible things before.