hard drive failure

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Originally Posted by zinneken

I learned my lesson now, don't even trust a mac !

Heh... well, considering that Apple does not manufacture hard drives, and the Macintosh itself in terms of hardware and/or software made by Apple probably didn't cause the hard drive to fail, that's a pretty broad statement...

...kinda like saying "I'll never trust Chevrolet again because my tire made by Pirelli went flat."

[sinclair_tm]

you hit it on that head el. the hd is not by apple. and like i said before, there is no sw that will let you get info off the hd if it can't be seen by anything. again, i bet the heads are in the platter, and not on the arms anymore. which means you'd be lucky if drivesavers can even get info off the drive. zinn your hd has suffured a major failure, like if your cd was cut in half. if anything can be saved, it can only be done by experts in data recovery. time to get a new hd, and start over, and backup more offten. i would get a new one from newegg.com. or you could do a want ad in the forum's classifieds for a laptop hd. but if you don't want to, i'm sure that there are many people here that would be happy to give you money for the laptop, just post in the classifieds.