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A few months ago, my hard drive on my MacBook Air was acting up. I purchased Disk Warrior but while it was able to recover data, it couldn't restore my hard drive. And since the MacBook Air's SuperDrive won't work on a USB hub, the one USB port I had was occupied, so I had no way to back up the data to an external drive.

Long story short, I replaced the hard drive. Now however, I still want to try to use Disk Warrior to recover the data off the old hard drive. Are there any enclosures for a MacBook Air 80 GB hard drive?
 
PC812 said:
A few months ago, my hard drive on my MacBook Air was acting up. I purchased Disk Warrior but while it was able to recover data, it couldn't restore my hard drive. And since the MacBook Air's SuperDrive won't work on a USB hub, the one USB port I had was occupied, so I had no way to back up the data to an external drive.

Long story short, I replaced the hard drive. Now however, I still want to try to use Disk Warrior to recover the data off the old hard drive. Are there any enclosures for a MacBook Air 80 GB hard drive?
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It's rare to find enclosures for those 1.8" drives. I imagine there has to be something out there (haven't looked seriously), but situations like this are perfect examples on why not to purchase a MB Air (at least not as your primary or only machine).
 
PC812 said:
I didn't purchase it, it was a gift.
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Okay, whatever...Should've backed up. The Airs have a USB port so there was no excuse for not backing up.

I've done a couple data recoveries from failing MB Air drives, but the way I did it was with the old drive in the machine still. I booted to an OS I have loaded on an external USB drive with a copy of DiskWarrior on that system and enough free space on another partition on that external drive to copy the data over.
 
djackmac said:
Okay, whatever...Should've backed up. The Airs have a USB port so there was no excuse for not backing up.

I've done a couple data recoveries from failing MB Air drives, but the way I did it was with the old drive in the machine still. I booted to an OS I have loaded on an external USB drive with a copy of DiskWarrior on that system and enough free space on another partition on that external drive to copy the data over.
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I only have one Mac, so I couldn't load an OS onto an external USB drive after the first one failed. I was just asking a simple question about external enclosures, no need to be smug.
 
PC812 said:
I only have one Mac, so I couldn't load an OS onto an external USB drive after the first one failed. I was just asking a simple question about external enclosures, no need to be smug.
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I guess you'll have to pay to take it to someone with more resources than you have. Lesson learned for next time then. Maybe you were only asking about enclosures and I'm sorry for going further and actually trying to give you suggestions on how to get your data. I'm not making any money off of this and was kindly volunteering my Wisdom on my holiday and I can see it's not appreciated. So another one for the ignore list..
 
It is a attitude like djackmac has makes me wonder about the wisdom of this site.We are all not pros when it comes to macs.If this is the tone you take in your business,I'm glad I don't have to do business with you!
 
This site is staffed by volunteers and only volunteers not unlike yourself. The wisdom and attitude of any single member is not reflective of the community as a whole (any statistician would be pulling their hair out at the thought!). If one member is extremely helpful, that doesn't mean that every member is extremely helpful... and if one member is extremely unhelpful, the same goes for that as well.

With that being said, it looks like there's just short of a plethora of external cases available for a 1.8" hard drive:

http://www.google.com/search?q=1.8"...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Now, I know that 1.8" hard drives may come with several different connection types ("ZIF" [which I think is used on the MacBook Air], USB, IDE, and potentially even SATA), so it would be best to ensure that, if you purchase an external case, it is compatible with your type of 1.8" hard drive.

Obtaining an enclosure would be the first step in recovering data from the hard drive.

I have to interject at this point and second the recommendation to back up in the future, no matter what. Obtaining a new computer and putting it to work is fun and exciting, much like driving, but the first thing you do when you hop in a car is protect yourself with a seatbelt: and the same goes for a computer. Mission number one, above and beyond all other missions, should be to secure and implement some kind of backup solution. Mac OS X Leopard and higher makes this extremely easy to do with Time Machine.
 
Well I have been looking at external hardrives for backing up my entire drive in my computer at the moment. I have been looking at these external drives and thinking why couldn't I just buy a external drive enclosure (usb) and a internal hard drive and come out cheaper.
 
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