Hi,
I was wondering if you could help me with the following problem.
I have an 2007 MBP that recently the screen went blank. I assume it's the usual issue with the graphics card.
On the HD I have parallels installed and although I managed to recover all my data (located in my OSX directories) by using the HD as an external HD on a PC (using MacDrive), I'm not able to recover the data that were saved on the parallel's ''windows XP'' desktop.
Unfortunately, I don't have a spare mac but I found somebody who is willing to lent me his macbook for a couple of hours.
Now my question is if I can use my HD (as an external USB drive) to boot on the macbook. I was thinking that if I manage to boot using my HD, I would be able to transfer all my data.
Is this possible and more important is it safe? Obviously I want to make sure that the owner's internal macbook HD will not be affected in any way.
I'm meeting the guy tomorrow so I would really appreciate if you give me some advice.
I'm not a native English speaker so I hope my question makes some sense.
Thanks!
Michael
I was wondering if you could help me with the following problem.
I have an 2007 MBP that recently the screen went blank. I assume it's the usual issue with the graphics card.
On the HD I have parallels installed and although I managed to recover all my data (located in my OSX directories) by using the HD as an external HD on a PC (using MacDrive), I'm not able to recover the data that were saved on the parallel's ''windows XP'' desktop.
Unfortunately, I don't have a spare mac but I found somebody who is willing to lent me his macbook for a couple of hours.
Now my question is if I can use my HD (as an external USB drive) to boot on the macbook. I was thinking that if I manage to boot using my HD, I would be able to transfer all my data.
Is this possible and more important is it safe? Obviously I want to make sure that the owner's internal macbook HD will not be affected in any way.
I'm meeting the guy tomorrow so I would really appreciate if you give me some advice.
I'm not a native English speaker so I hope my question makes some sense.
Thanks!
Michael