Retrieving data from an external hard drive.... help!

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Retrieving data from an external hard drive.... help!

Last night I backed up my macbook pro to a firelite external hard drive...this morning my mac was stuck in start up (folder with ? mark)

I unfortunately plugged my fire lite hard drive back in thinking I was going to reinstall everything from that (not realising the hard drive was dead) I selected the back up but of course it wouldn't work. I came out of reinstall but couldn't eject the harddrive so unplugged it and got the devise removal sign.

I do not have another mac only a PC and my harddrive isn't a normal usb shape ...it has a --> an wider curved shape at one ends which of course fitted my mac. Is there an adapter for this so I can plug into my PC and check my work is still on there or is there no way to read it?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), computer novice

Posted on Aug 18, 2009 3:37 AM

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DaddyPaycheck

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Aug 18, 2009 4:19 AM in response to Louie2woo

Boot from your OSX installation disk and use Disk Utility to repair the MBP's hard drive.

Once you have the Mac able to boot then try using Disk Utility on the external drive.

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eww

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Aug 18, 2009 5:02 AM in response to Louie2woo

The connection port on your FireLite drive doesn't look like a USB port because it isn't a USB port — it's a FireWire port. There is no adapter that will enable you to connect it to a PC that doesn't have such a port. If you wanted to, you could add one to your PC for very little cost. But Daddy Paycheck's recommended approach to solving your problem is a much better option, because the PC wouldn't be able to read a Mac-formated external drive anyway.

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