Thanks for forwarding my details Ronni. I do hope Martin has resolved his troubles.
Reg Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ http://beachlands.wordpress.com On 02/01/2011, at 8:32 am, Ronda Brown 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>
