Hi Richard Can you ask them to have the drive back temporarily then give it back to them once you’ve recovered the data?
Regards Sam <http://www.facebook.com/macambulance> <http://www.twitter.com/macambulance> <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/macambulance/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen ACMT +44 (0)7747778022 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 5 Apr 2016, at 14:43, [email protected] wrote: > > I am not sure what to do about this. > > My two and a half year old iMac recently suffered a broken hard drive. I have > taken it in to the Apple store and they have replaced the hard drive for > £140. I have a Time Machine backup and some partial backups made using target > disk mode before I took it in. I am hoping that the Time Machine backup will > get me back up and running as before but I asked them if I could have the old > drive back in case I needed that to try and rescue any more data. (I also > thought it would be more secure to get it back and dispose of it myself.) > > They say they can do that but it will cost me another £100 because they would > otherwise return it to the manufacturer who would recycle it. > > So I have a faulty Mac which has cost me a lot of grief (long story) as well > as a fair amount of cash and now I have to spend even more to buy my own, > faulty hard drive! > > Richard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
