Where to get Hard Drive cloned in Los Angeles?

[speeder]

Like the title states, anyone know a good place for this in L.A.? My HD crashed on my MacBook a few weeks ago, I ordered a new one based on advice in another thread but I need to retrieve the data and OS off of the crashed HD. Unfortunately, it was not backed-up.

Hoping to find somewhere that will not rape me too severely.

[motion]

I hope there isn't any homemade porn on it. They'll charge you triple. True dat. (not my personal experience)

[look 171]

A buddy owns a Mac specific company that does that kind of stuff. You want his number? check PM

[speeder]

Originally Posted by motion

I hope there isn't any homemade porn on it. They'll charge you triple. True dat. (not my personal experience)

Nope, just some garden variety commercial stuff. "My Friend's Hot Mom", stuff like that.

[slodave]

I might be able to help.

[stomachmonkey]

does it spin up?

by crashed do you mena dead dead or corrupted and wont boot

I have a bunch of old macbook drives in a drawer so odds are I may have oen that has the correct logic board to replace if it's not the platters or heads that are hosed

[speeder]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

does it spin up?

by crashed do you mena dead dead or corrupted and wont boot

I have a bunch of old macbook drives in a drawer so odds are I may have oen that has the correct logic board to replace if it's not the platters or heads that are hosed

It's dead, I think. I took it to the Genius Bar and they fired up my computer and it would not recognise the HD at all. Fried.

I have the new HD for it, (got the Seagate hybrid that was recommended here on the other thread), now I need to retrieve the data off the bad one and have it put on the new one.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by speeder

It's dead, I think. I took it to the Genius Bar and they fired up my computer and it would not recognise the HD at all. Fried.

I have the new HD for it, (got the Seagate hybrid that was recommended here on the other thread), now I need to retrieve the data off the bad one and have it put on the new one.

Not recognized as in it does not even show up as a device at all?

Send it to me or Dave.

If it's dead dead there is really not much that we could try with it that would make things worse.

Is the drive out of the laptop?

Take a pic of the label and I'll check my drawer to see if we can get a match for the board.

[speeder]

Pretty sure that it did not show up as a device. Don't hold me to that, though...I am really not too sharp on the IT end of things. I installed the player for Netflix on it, (Silverline), and the next morning it took a schit.

What should I take a picture of? The label on the HD?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by speeder

Pretty sure that it did not show up as a device. Don't hold me to that, though...I am really not too sharp on the IT end of things. I installed the player for Netflix on it, (Silverline), and the next morning it took a schit.

What should I take a picture of? The label on the HD?

Yes, white label on the top.

[HardDrive]

There can be only one.

[genrex]

HD, as Rika would say...

this won't hurt a bit
we just need a tissue sample
and some agar-agar in a petri dish
anything is possible
trust me.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

There can be only one.

That is what I was thinking? Has Denis at least run this by you? If I was going to have a twin running around, I would want to know.

[kaisen]

If the old hard drive is truly fried, you're not going to get info off of it to transfer to the new HD. That info is lost, unless you want to pay through the nose to have it recovered.

Better off starting over

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

There can be only one.

Unless you've signed his Cloning Release Form.

[911Freak]

Originally Posted by slodave

I might be able to help.

^^^^ this guy
Local to Speeder too

Worked for my crashed HD

[red-beard]

Where to get Hard Drive cloned in Los Angeles?

Originally Posted by HardDrive

There can be only one.

Yeah, one is Enough! It's bad enough you're allowed to have children!

[tharbert]

@ slodave: So, to get this right... If the logic board is fried but the platters are physically sound, you just swap out the logic board?

If the issue is physical, like the motor won't spin or the heads have damaged the platters then it's kaput?

Can you swap any components on the inside?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by tharbert

@ slodave: So, to get this right... If the logic board is fried but the platters are physically sound, you just swap out the logic board?

If the issue is physical, like the motor won't spin or the heads have damaged the platters then it's kaput?

Can you swap any components on the inside?

You need to find a logic board from an identical drive. It's one of the methods used by drive recovery companies.

You can't swap anything inside yourself. You need a clean room to open up a drive.

There is an analogy, goes something like this, a head flying over a platter is like flying a jet at Mach 1 a foot off the ground.

[slodave]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

You need to find a logic board from an identical drive......

To expand on this... The drive that will be used to borrow the logic board needs to have the same firmware, not just identical. The label on a hard drive will show a serial number, firmware number and date of manufacture. Serial numbers should be close, but not necessarily sequential (that's would be like finding a needle in a haystack ). Firmware needs to be identical. If the bad drive has a FW of 1.02 and the replacement drive/board has a FW of 1.03, it won't work. On the rare occasion, it's possible to find a seemingly identical hard drive, with same FW, but the date of manufacture will be far enough apart, that they physically changed the logic board. This again won't work. I've come across that maybe twice in the last 10 years.

There are some companies that buy NOS to sit on and sell in cases like this. There was a guy out here that did that. The prices are not cheap, you'll pay a slight premium for an old drive, but it's a lot cheaper than sending the bad drive out to be recovered - assuming it's a logic board issue.