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Mac Forum / General / General / October 2008Mac G4 to rescue data from a Macbook
Hi; I have a friend, who is a non-IT person, whose Macbook hard drive died on her. She doesn't want to send it in for maintenance until she can recover some of her data. She was just given a Mac G4. I know NOTHING about Macs and I'm not a hardware guy, but I am a programmer. So, even though I am totally ignorant in this area I can communicate and follow directions. Is there anyway I can use her G4 to read and copy her data off of her sick macbook? Thanks in advance for any information > I have a friend, who is a non-IT person, whose Macbook hard drive died > on her. [...] > > Is there anyway I can use her G4 to read and copy her data off of her > sick macbook? Supposed that her hard drive *died*, what kind of data do you wish to rescue? >Hi; >I have a friend, who is a non-IT person, whose Macbook hard drive died >on her. She doesn't want to send it in for maintenance until she can >recover some of her data. She was just given a Mac G4. >I know NOTHING about Macs and I'm not a hardware guy, but I am a >programmer. So, even though I am totally ignorant in this area I can >communicate and follow directions. >Is there anyway I can use her G4 to read and copy her data off of her >sick macbook? If the Macbook won't boot, but the whole drive is not toast.... Get a Firewire cable. Plug it between the two. Power-up the MacBook while holding T down. You should get a floating logo that's half radiation warning, half Klingon High Command logo. The drive, if viable, will show up on the G4 desktop.  SignatureA host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 > If the Macbook won't boot, but the whole drive is not toast.... > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > The drive, if viable, will show up on the G4 desktop. I'm guessing you mean the "T" keyboard key? Being a linux and windows guy that sounds a bit odd for a command key :) Thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. Steve >> If the Macbook won't boot, but the whole drive is not toast.... >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I'm guessing you mean the "T" keyboard key? Being a linux and windows > guy that sounds a bit odd for a command key :) Yes, it stands for Target Disk Mode. Cheers, Chris > >Hi; > >I have a friend, who is a non-IT person, whose Macbook hard drive died [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > The drive, if viable, will show up on the G4 desktop. Got a chance to try it this weekend 1. Connected the PowerPC G4 laptop ( the working computer ) via a firewire to the Macbook Intel Laptop ( the non-working computer ) 2. Powered up the PowerPC, the powered up the Macbook holding down the "T" key there. 3. I got the "radiation" symbol on the dead macbook, but a directory/ symbol/etc for it did not appeal on the powerpc. My friends dead intel macbook is still under warranty, but she doesn't want to send it in for service yet. She claims that Apple wants it with the hard drive and that they will not send the hard drive back. In other words if she wants them to fix her machine they will likely throwout her hard drive and she will lose her data. Any alternatives for getting her data back? > Hi; > > I have a friend, who is a non-IT person, whose Macbook hard drive died > on her. She doesn't want to send it in for maintenance until she can > recover some of her data. She was just given a Mac G4. The other advice given here's been good, but I wanted to address the "sending it in for maintenance" point. There's no need to do that it all that's needed is to replace the drive, as MacBooks have hard drives that are *very* easily replaced. Apple even documents the procedure over at <http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MacBook_13inch_HardDrive_DIY.pdf> MacBooks take 2.5" SATA notebook drives that are 9.5mm high, which are easy to find in the shops. There's nothing Mac-specific about them. I'd seriously consider getting a new drive anyway, and then separately figure out how to recover stuff from the dead drive. You've no doubt asked your friend about backups... If she's been using Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" that has a built-in feature called Time Machine which basically does incremental backups every hour. Ask her if she's been using this, and if not when she's going to start :-) Cheers, Chris |
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