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Is this Possible

by brakewell Dec 11, 2008 7:40AM PST

Hi there I don't know if this is where I should post this or even if anyone can help but here goes and very many thanks to all who give me guidence or soulutions to this problem. My friend has a Mac laptop and for some reason or other that I can't get out of him a new hard drive was installed and he was given the old hard drive that came out of it. He is adamant that it is still OK. He says he has lots of Pics and documents on it he wants to recover. I have only worked on Windows PC's. Is it possible for me to read these onto my pc and transfer them to a cd so he can put them back on his Mac.
Will the connections on his hard drive be compatible with the windows system.
I hope you can help me many thanks Tony b.

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To read an Apple formatted hard disk I...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 11, 2008 10:15AM PST

Boot into Linux and copy it over. Find 'Ubuntu.'

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Of course it is.

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Dec 11, 2008 10:17AM PST

You will obviously be surprised to hear that a Mac uses the same type of hard drives as the rest of the computing world.

Depending on the type of Mac laptop he has, the drive is either a regular laptop IDE drive or a regular laptop SATA drive.

If the drive is IDE, then you will probably not be able to hook it up to a regular PC because of the way that a laptop drive gets its power.
If the drive is SATA, you should be fine. You just need a piece of software to enable Windows to read a Mac formatted disk and you are good to go.

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