Thanks Ronni, I don't have access to another Mac here or I would indeed have done the target disc trick.
Thanks Reg for getting back to me, I'll get in touch off the list. Great to see our Geraldton chapter in action on a Sunday - much appreciated! Paul I may indeed try out the rsync option if other options don't work. Ciao -Mart Sent from my iPhone On 02/01/2011, at 8:32 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > So sorry to hear this Martin, > > If you can locate another Mac (& an external firewire Drive), and connect to > your MBP via Firewire Target Disk Mode, you might be able to see the MBP's > hard drive and then be able to get the data over to an external drive > attached also to the MBP. > I did this just recently on with an iMac that had a dead Hard Drive that DW > could not fix, but did manage to get 8 Users Folders & Data plus Shared (9 > Total) onto the External Drive. > > A couple of people who might be able to help you in Geraldton (if you can > contact them) are: > As Reg does include his contact numbers in his signature to WAMUG Mailing > list, I don't think he would mind me posting them here. > > Reg Whitely <rwhit...@internode.on.net> > > Home: 08 9921 7272 > Mob: 04 8899 7313 > > Also > Kyle Kreusch <kylekreu...@gmail.com> > > Best of luck, hope you can get someone to help. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 02/01/2011, at 6:50 AM, Martin Hill wrote: > >> >> Hi all. I have a bit of an emergency up here in Geraldton and wonder if any >> WAMUG or GMUGers who might be in town would have a snow leopard DVD I could >> borrow today (and maybe a Disk Warrior or similar CD)? >> >> I'm helping run a windsurfing camp at Bluff Point Camp school for a bunch of >> high school kids and my current model 15" MacBook Pro HDD has just died >> taking with it all the video and photo footage that I have been editing of >> the last week's camper exploits. This is the last day of camp and we were >> planning on showing the footage tonight at our final special dinner for the >> camp. >> >> I have tried fsck in single user mode but too many disk errors leave the Mac >> stuck at the Apple logo and spinning ring stage of booting. I have an >> external drive with a 10.5 boot partition and space for file recovery, but >> unfortunately it won't boot the MBP (should have updated that HDD before I >> left on this camp. *sigh*) >> >> Thanks to anyone in Geraldton who might be able to help! >> >> -Mart >> >> Sent from my iPhone > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
