this girl I know has been planning on getting a new dell laptop for awhile now, but has not had a chance. She has an old emac and she called me today and told me that the computer has crashed and will no longer turn on. She was asking me if it is possible to get all of her email and word files off of the mac.

Is there any way to connect the mac drive to a PC to extract the data from the hard drive in the mac? Is it a normal IDE hard drive or some type of mac specific interface? thanks.

5/23/2006 8:03:49 PM

it'll be a normal IDE drive. aside from the processor, Macs have been pretty much all industry-standard parts for years now...

remove hard drive + put in an external enclosure = teh wins 

5/23/2006 8:20:26 PM

^ As long as it isn't the HDD that crashed. If that is the case then no go.

But yes, that will work if the drive works - you will need to use another Mac though because PCs will not read HFS+ (Mac filesystem) but Macs will read/write it as well as FAT32 and NTFS (PC filesystems)

5/23/2006 8:52:49 PM

Wrong, just get MacDisk

http://www.macdisk.com/mden.php3

5/23/2006 9:08:05 PM

livejournal will still have all of your poetry

5/23/2006 9:11:47 PM

^^ I meant natively.

jeez Noen calm down.

5/23/2006 9:19:18 PM

I figured, just felt a little tickle of asshole hit me

5/23/2006 9:28:53 PM