[ale] Know anybody who knows macs, hd, etc. in NC Triangle?

[william at fragakis.com (William Fragakis)]

This saved my friend who had his Mac stolen, and his files "trashed". He
tracked it down on Craigs List with help from the local police. We
recovered most everything except I think the email.

As he made his livelihood off this Mac, he was relieved.

If she can send you the drive (and if you have a Mac), I recommend it.
(Or whoever you deputize.)

Regards,
William

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 11:35 -0400, david w. millians wrote:
> You know the slogan about the problem with making a computer idiot 
> proof, how you make better idiots? Yeah...
> 
> In spite of my best efforts, my cousin may or may not have backed up her 
> mac with time machine. (How much more PAINLESS can you make backup? Plug 
> it in, say yes, that's it... anyways...)
> 
> Her mac was booting to a white screen. There doesn't appear to be a 
> click-o-death situation here. The mac geniuses repaired it, and said it 
> was the hd. Fair enough.
> 
> Being as how it wasn't click of death, does anybody know somebody in the 
> research triangle area of NC who you would trust to use a recovery tool 
> on an external drive? The computer's about 9 months old, so my gut is 
> that the HD just corrupted some boot areas, but not the data...
> 
> Or, any advice about mac hd recovery would be welcome. If it's not COD 
> on a mac hd, is it endangering it more to try this afore resorting to 
> the $3000 recovery people?
> 
> Sigh,
> David
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