Damaged Hard drive how to retrieve files

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Damaged Hard drive how to retrieve files

I have a friends late 2008 MBP 2.4GHz Unibody whos hard drive seems to have packed in. I have just bought Disk Warrior as a last resort but unfortunately get this when scanning the HD via Target mode: directory cannot be rebuilt due to disk hardware failure (-36,2738). The odd thing is that Disk Warrior reads 7 Macintosh HDs not one - is there something i cacn do to get Disk Warrior to see the data as only one drive?

Is there any way for me to patch the drive up enough to get the files off onto and external drive?

thanks

Phil

Posted on Jun 3, 2011 3:20 PM

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Answer 1

iVmichael

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Jun 3, 2011 3:22 PM in response to Phil Houghton

I'd recommend Data Rescue 3 if Disk Warrior isn't working.

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

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Answer 2

ds store

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Jun 3, 2011 4:09 PM in response to Phil Houghton

The file structure is borked, your best bet would be to use software that bypasses it and reals the 1's and 0's directly off the drive and rebuild the files that way.

DataRescue is the choice for that. Mind, you need to send the results to another drive, so you need a external if your internal can't handle all that data.

Good luck.

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Answer 3

Jun 4, 2011 1:36 AM in response to ds store

Ok, I've just ran the demo version and it says that it cannot find anything to rebuild. I've tried the demo for StellarPheonix too but again it could not find anything to salvage.

I think the problem is that the recovery software is seeing the drive as 9 or 10 mirrored drives like this–

Macintosh HD 246GB

It's as if the software doesn't know which one to scan.

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