[iBook] getting data off pulled iBook HD

Todd Doerpinghaus doerps at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 16 08:35:03 PDT 2006


Joy,

Would you be able to install it in a hard drive
enclosure and use it as an external drive?

Todd

--- Joy Freeman <pagesbyjoy at gmail.com> wrote:

> We recently upgraded the original hard drive in a
> dual-USB iBook. It now
> turns out the old drive wasn't properly backed up
> and we need to pull some
> data from it. Short of cracking open the iBook
> again, what is our best bet
> for bringing that drive up and getting the data?
> We'd rather not open a
> laptop again, but we do have an old G3 to work with,
> as well as two working
> iBooks, a MacBook Pro, and an external hard drive.
> We're willing to spend at
> least a little money on hardware to do this if
> necessary. There's no Apple
> store within hundreds of miles, so we can't very
> well carry it in to a
> Genius Bar, and my husband would probably feel
> uncomfortable sending the
> hard drive off to somebody else to recover the data.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Joy
> 
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