Depending on what type of Mac you have, you may well be able to implant
the disk in the mac directly. Almost all recent Macs use IDE channels
and ATA/IDE disks, which is the same as what PCs use (mostly).
Just remember that if you put this disk on the same channel as the
boot disk, set the "master/slave" jumper to "slave". Mac OS X should
be able to figure out the file system and mount it for you.
Short of that, the idea of using a cheap external FW/USB case is
actually
a very good one. Shouldn't have to spend a *whole* lot on one of those
cases, and they are terribly useful once you are done with this project
(or just leave that disk in there, maybe reformat it some other way,
after getting the files off it)...
I did much the same thing for something like the same reasons.
My heart goes out to your friend, and to anyone who ever had to
or has to deal with Windows, viruses, and spyware. What a blight!
KR
On Jul 22, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
Hopefully, this is only semi off topic and allowed here. A friend
has a pc (dell running xp home) that has become absolutely unusable
due to the usual stuff (spyware, adware, virii, etc.). Of Course,
she does not have a backup of the irreplaceable files on it, mostly
jpegs. I am wondering if there is a way to physically connect the
drive to one of my Macs to get the files off of it?
I would prefer for the solution to be free, but if the only easy
way is using a external FW/USB case, let me know. And if anyone has
experience with putting a pc drive into an external case to access
it on a Mac, I would appreciate any warnings or preferably a slap
upside the head with the proverbial "Just do it, it is a Mac, it
will just work".
Thanks,
Len
Consulting:
If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made
in prolonging the problem.
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