Apple ibook data recovery

Hello all,

I have an Apple ibook and the hard drive has crashed. The unit was under warranty and I was able to get the hard drive replaced quite easily. My issue is with the old hard drive. I have some pictures and stuff I would like to get off the old hard drive. Not being a Mac or Apple expert, I was wondering if anyone had any experience on doing this. I have heard that these hard drives have USB ports on them and I can just plug an USB cable into the old hard drive and it should show up like a removable device. I do not know if this is true. I have not been able to look at the bad hard drive yet. Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks.


Brett

I am not sure if you will be able to mount your hard drive but I do know if you are able to Mac Data Recovery Software, Mac Data Rescue, Digital Data Recovery Disk for Mac this program has saved me many many times I believe it will be able to recover the data for you.

Hard drives do not have USB ports, computers do. What you may have been told is that the hard drive which was removed from your iBook could be put in a USB external case and attached to the computer that way.

However, if your hard drive crashed and can not be read it won't matter. The data is probably inaccessible. You can try placing it in an external USB case and see if it can be read. You might be lucky and can get some data copied from the drive. Otherwise trying to get at the data would be expensive.

Regards.