recovery

Hi all, I've cracked the screen on my MacBook Pro i7 with touchbar. I was using it with USB-C to HDMI adapter to external monitor no problem. I left it for an hour and I couldn't get back into it. The only thing that seems to work is to press the power (fingerprint) button until I see the...

So, here is what happened. I am really stupid. Like, really really stupid. So I have an SSD in my hard drive bay and an HDD in my optical bay with a bracket. System/Apps on the SSD, everything else - HDD. Last night I tried dual booting linux and deleted everything on both drives by...

I know there are several threads discussing external drops, but they haven't helped me thus far. I dropped a Buffalo 320gb USB external drive while it was operating. When I reattached the drive it lights up and I can hear and feel the spinning for a moment, but it always goes to the message...

Hi, I have an Iomega 33748 USB 2.0 1TB 2HD x 500GB Desktop Hard Drive that is raid 0 that was struck by lightning a week ago. My Imac survived the strike thank you mac gods I took the drive to a local Data recovery center and was told drives are ok and all they need to do is re strip...

My MacBook screen froze while it was trying to do two tasks at once (overheating???). After 10 min, I shut it down with the power button. When I restarted it, I got a screen with a blinking folder & question mark. I shut it down with the power button, restarted it again, same result. I can't...

I have preached back ups to my family for years, showed them how to use Carbon Copy Cloner, referred cheap external drives... you name it, but do they listen? By brother's Mac drive had a total failure, but he hasn't back up since 2006. Apple replaced the drive (under warranty) and let him take...

Hard drive data recovery services are now widely offered by a number of data recovery companies and businesses around the globe. These hard drive data recovery services are even highly accessible online with lots of websites out there on the web advertising and featuring their wonderful and...

Here's the scenario... I was happily working away on my 20" iMac (2 Ghz, G5 w/1.5 GB RAM) when my building experienced a power outage. Power was restored a few minutes later but my iMac wouldn't turn back on. One new motherboard later, my iMac is able to powerup (although my USB ports now don't...

Hello everyone I hope all is well....and i hope that someone can help me with the little dilema i am having I recently dropped my powerbook 15” in the floor and dented the outer casing very badly as a result I couldn’t open it. Luckily I had insurance who picked up my powerbook to repair it...

i have just plugged my ipod into my laptop and it wiped all my songs. i have my ipod on manual sync but im not sure what happened. is there anyway i can recover my files or are they gone forever?????????????

I have a small AppleWorks database file that has become damaged for no apparent reason. When I try to open it, I get an error message "The file appears to be damaged and cannot be opened." Apple's website is not much help; the only advice is to recreate a blank database and try to insert it...

Hello I am running a mac powerbook G4, with Mac os x 10.3.9. I burned a bunch of photos from my digital camera to my computer, onto a dvd (4.7 G) (using toast), then deleted them from my computer. Later, when I tried to open the photos from the dvd, many of the photos are corrupt and cannot...

Recently the college I attended discontinued service for all recently graduated students (like me). So I wanted to take the mailbox off of Mail but still have all the messages somewhere. So I hastily deleted the Inbox for that mailbox by going under "IN" and hitting delete (and then it asked if...

I had a 90MB Filemaker Pro 3.0v1 database (working in Classic Mac OS 9) mounted on the desktop of an iBook (Mac OS X version 10.3 - 800MHz PowerPC G3 - 128 MB memory). Last evening when I closed the database and shut down the computer, somehow the computer removed the database from the desktop...

Hello there, right. my boss' powerbook has had a tough morning. Entourage freaked out earlier today and demanded a rebuild. we tried that. no good. checked the size of his main identities folder and it was a whopping 10G!! dont know how. I moved all the 6 month old + database files...

Ok, got into a larger problem. Lost networking and cannot boot all the way into the Admin screen on the console, tho I know the system boots as when the first drive comes to rest after booting, about 60 seconds, I am able to ping the box. Also, Disk Utils let me get to the data on both drives...

I have a LaCie 80g FW drive that failed. The drive structure is ok it is the filesystem that failed. I have tried running Disk Warrior, TTP, OS X Disk Utility all with no luck. I removed the drive from the FW cage and installed it internally and still nothing. The drive is a Seagate ATA drive...

I have a powerbook titanium that I just soaked with water. I tried to dry it out and it managed to turn back on ok, except when I plugged in the main lead and it died. The battery is pretty low anyway so I only got about 10mins out of it before it ran out, but I can't charge it or turn it on...