My macbook hard drive suddenly crashed. I was by my laptop normally when everything freezes, so i rebooted it, but it never started again with Snow Leopard. I took it to a repair center and they changed the HD because it was apparently not responding but all my info got stuck in the ancient disk. Does anyone know how can I get it back? Any recovery software or something? They charge me like 0 to recover my info.
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Answer by CanadaRAM
The vital thing if you are going to recover files is to stop by the machine. Every minute you continue by the machine increases the chance that the spaces on the disk where the deleted files are will be overwritten with other data.
First, place the drive into a USB external case so it can be plugged into a machine
You can try various software to see if the files can be recovered — if the drive is spinning and responding to the computer. If the drive is not spinning, then jump to the bottom of this post.
DataRescue http://www.prosofteng.com/
FileSalvage (Mac) http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1
Recuva (free): http://www.recuva.com/
Restoration (free) http://download.cnet.com/Restoration/3000-2094_4-10322950.html?tag=mncol
There are some websites that have tools you can try, and then if it looks like it can recover some data, you have to pay to do the recovery
VirtualLab http://www.binarybiz.com/
If all else fails, you can send your drive to a data recovery service, it will cost hundreds or thousands of dollars depending on what the problem is.
If you are going to send it out for recovery, the less fooling around with software you do with the drive on your own, the better.
DriveSavers http://www.drivesavers.com/
ActionFront http://www.actionfront.com/
TotalRecall http://www.totalrecall.com/
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