Right...story started just over a week ago when I dropped it...only from about a foot off the floor, but it killed the hard drive. Took it to Apple & got a new one fitted, but they weren't willing to try & extract the data off of the old one.
Did a restore from the back-up on an external drive, last one was end of January...so lost loads of stuff Top it off my jailbroken iPhone froze up, so had to restore that, again from the January back-up off of the laptop.
Been out over the weekend & picked up a SATA to USB adaptor & managed to get the old hard drive working - just about. The external hard drive with the back-ups was almost full, so dumped the data onto another external drive. Hard to do it folder by folder, when I tried the whole Macintosh HD folder I got errors bout certain files not being able to copy.
Tried to do a restore from this external hard drive, but as it wasn't set up as the Time Machine back up location it wouldn't find the back-up. So thought ok, I'll replace the 'latest' back-up folder on the other hard drive, as it's mapped as the Time Machine back up drive. Managed to get it done, but now the disk will not mount. Managed to find it in Disk Utilities, & when I tried to verify the disk it was having a problem because the expected data volume was above the actual.
Managed to get the external hard drive to mount now....but how can I do a restore from the Macintosh HD folder on the dead hard drive (now on an external drive). Thought about replacing the files in one of my recent back-ups with the files from the dead HD - would that work?
Thanks for any help...
Did a restore from the back-up on an external drive, last one was end of January...so lost loads of stuff Top it off my jailbroken iPhone froze up, so had to restore that, again from the January back-up off of the laptop.
Been out over the weekend & picked up a SATA to USB adaptor & managed to get the old hard drive working - just about. The external hard drive with the back-ups was almost full, so dumped the data onto another external drive. Hard to do it folder by folder, when I tried the whole Macintosh HD folder I got errors bout certain files not being able to copy.
Tried to do a restore from this external hard drive, but as it wasn't set up as the Time Machine back up location it wouldn't find the back-up. So thought ok, I'll replace the 'latest' back-up folder on the other hard drive, as it's mapped as the Time Machine back up drive. Managed to get it done, but now the disk will not mount. Managed to find it in Disk Utilities, & when I tried to verify the disk it was having a problem because the expected data volume was above the actual.
Managed to get the external hard drive to mount now....but how can I do a restore from the Macintosh HD folder on the dead hard drive (now on an external drive). Thought about replacing the files in one of my recent back-ups with the files from the dead HD - would that work?
Thanks for any help...