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Yes, might. Or, my hard drive could have fantastically failed one week later (as it actually did). Software, no matter how great it is, can't fix physical hardware problems. Logically, if you think that your drive might have even a slim chance of failing, you would probably first make up a...

Well, bad sectors and the fact that the volume information was corrupted led me to think that it didn't magically happen on its own. Usually small things tend to become bigger things given enough time. I assumed that there was something wrong with the hardware, hence erring on the side of...

The program ddrescue was able to get about 7/8 of the hard drive before it started to effectively become unresponsive. (More than I was expecting.) Judging by the noises, it's now a problem with the heads. The next step is to refrigerate the hard drive to see if that does anything. So... what...

Well, an interesting thing happened. I was waiting a few days for a SATA to USB converter to ship, and that arrived today. I plugged it into my second laptop (which has Ubuntu on it), and the drive's main volume mounted right away. Ubuntu was able to recognize it. (Umm... so why can't OS X...

One other option I was considering before going the $100 route was to make an entire copy of the hard drive using GNU ddrescue. Then I could try working on it with a recovery program like foremost. Would ddrescue be a viable option at least to get the data copied?

My Intel MacBook (late 2006 model) is not able to boot up, and I need a few suggestions as to how I should proceed. A bit of background: I put the computer into hibernate two days ago (though not plugged in). I come back to it today and notice that it does not power up. I let it charge up for...