Mac hard drive failure recovery

[Jazbee]

Stolzy, I had the same issue last year with my mac book pro when I updated the operating system, ended up having to take it into the apple store and they fixed it in 10 mins. They had to use some special diagnostics software and I lost all the content on the disk but I did have a recent back up so all OK. Seemingly it was an issue with old mac books and newer operating system compatibility.

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

Apple......It just 'works'.....

(Written on an 11 month old MacBook Pro that is the most useless piece of shite that I have even spunked the best part of a grand on......seriously)

Here's a MacBook Pro it had the data extracted and backed up the quick way the piece of shite

 

[dr nosh]

Ooooh. Harsh.

My lad had a recent macbook fault, in as much as it would not start up. Of course, nothing backed up

He took it to Apple, Norwich and they diagnosed liquid damage. My lad says impossible. Only he uses it, and I believe him. They recommended data recovery, and gave the name of a company that they recommend. Got in contact with them for a quote, on-line £300 + VAT. They were on the phone to me in < 1 minute.

I suggested a 2nd opinion. He's a student with 'no' money (except when it comes to music producing software, going out, new clothes etc, etc.)

Got an appointment at Apple, Cambridge. As yes they said, common fault with this model, something about a bracket on the pcb holding the hard drive (?).

Left it with them for 3 hours. Went back, fixed, cleaned, no mention of liquid damage. How much......£0......and the laptop is 4 years old!

He could not believe his luck.

 

[Deleted account 181015003]

We used to sell computer kit many moons ago and the number of people who would buy a back up external drive and move all their stuff on it to back up instead of making a copy and then lose everything when they knock / drop the external drive while its running is quite shocking