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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
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<blockquote data-quote="EvenStranger" data-source="post: 1151555" data-attributes="member: 181804"><p><strong>Not good</strong></p><p></p><p>A spontaneous freeze followed by a flashing ? icon at boot is usually indicative of a hard drive crash - and usually a bad one. I'd try one of the following to try to access data:</p><p></p><p>1. If your computer has a FireWire port and you have a FireWire cable (or know someone who does) attempt to boot your computer in Target Disk Mode - Hold down the T key at boot until a FireWire logo appears on the screen. Basically, your computer is now a dumb hard drive. Connect it to another Mac with the FireWire cable, and if the drive is readable, it will show up on their screen like an external drive... find your papers and copy them off your drive.</p><p></p><p>2. put your drive in a drive enclosure (see advice above from DaFlake)</p><p></p><p>3. Take it to an Apple Authorized Service Provider (or Apple Store) and see if they can assist. </p><p></p><p>Also, there's a program called Data Rescue, runs about $99, but it has a free trial, so you can see if it will actually recover anything before you buy it. If it looks like it can recover enough data, pay the money and recover. If not, you're no worse off than you were before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EvenStranger, post: 1151555, member: 181804"] [b]Not good[/b] A spontaneous freeze followed by a flashing ? icon at boot is usually indicative of a hard drive crash - and usually a bad one. I'd try one of the following to try to access data: 1. If your computer has a FireWire port and you have a FireWire cable (or know someone who does) attempt to boot your computer in Target Disk Mode - Hold down the T key at boot until a FireWire logo appears on the screen. Basically, your computer is now a dumb hard drive. Connect it to another Mac with the FireWire cable, and if the drive is readable, it will show up on their screen like an external drive... find your papers and copy them off your drive. 2. put your drive in a drive enclosure (see advice above from DaFlake) 3. Take it to an Apple Authorized Service Provider (or Apple Store) and see if they can assist. Also, there's a program called Data Rescue, runs about $99, but it has a free trial, so you can see if it will actually recover anything before you buy it. If it looks like it can recover enough data, pay the money and recover. If not, you're no worse off than you were before. [/QUOTE]
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