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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1950471" data-attributes="member: 131855">There are a couple of things I just thought of that might be important factors in your decision about what to do with the iMac drive/Scenario One: Your Mac has a standard hard drive that is still intact. You might be able to get the drive removed relatively cheaply or even do it yourself. The drive could then be placed in an external case and used as is or at least salvage the data.Scenario Two: Standard drive but there has been directory structure damage. Once the drive is removed, Disk First Aid (included with the new Mac) might be able to solve this if you're really lucky. There is some third-party recovery software such as Disk Drill but these programs are not cheap, may/may not work, and are a time-consuming PITA IMHO. That is not a knock on any company/software. It's a function of the fact that this is not an easy thing to do.Scenario Three: The Fusion Drive. Some iMacs have drives that combine a chip which stores some data for speed/easy access and the rest of the data is on a traditional drive. I think recovering this drive is a professional job at best. The OS had control over what data was placed where so it's a real toss up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1950471, member: 131855"] There are a couple of things I just thought of that might be important factors in your decision about what to do with the iMac drive/ [B]Scenario One: Your Mac has a standard hard drive that is still intact[/B]. You might be able to get the drive removed relatively cheaply or even do it yourself. The drive could then be placed in an external case and used as is or at least salvage the data. [B]Scenario Two: Standard drive but there has been directory structure damage.[/B] Once the drive is removed, Disk First Aid (included with the new Mac) might be able to solve this if you're really lucky. There is some third-party recovery software such as Disk Drill but these programs are not cheap, may/may not work, and are a time-consuming PITA IMHO. That is not a knock on any company/software. It's a function of the fact that this is not an easy thing to do. [B]Scenario Three: The Fusion Drive. [/B]Some iMacs have drives that combine a chip which stores some data for speed/easy access and the rest of the data is on a traditional drive. I think recovering this drive is a professional job at best. The OS had control over what data was placed where so it's a real toss up. [/QUOTE]

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