I used the DriveWire adapter with 100% success in recovering my sister's photos and videos of my niece (from birth til age 7!) from a "dead" laptop drive (kept in a static-free bag in her basement for 5 years!). My issue, however, concerns Mac drives. My iMac G5 w/iSight hard drive crashed. It's from 2005, running OSX 10.4. According to Apple "Geniuses" and TekServe in NYC, the hard drive was dead. Never had a problem with it. No blinking folders, sad Mac faces, question marks, nothing. Tried all resets, tried FireWire to my G4, tried booting from Install DVD. Gray screen. Once got to "what language," then nothing. I took it out, put a brand new one in (250GB 3.5" SATA), and tried to see data on the drive using DriveWire. The problem is I only have my PC and PC laptop to try it on. I do have another Mac, but it's an even older G4 running OS9. My older Mac Titanium Powerbook drive too, but I'm pretty sure that one's completely shot thanks to Apple. A "Genius" dropped our Powerbook after upgrading the OS. It was never the same and all Apple would do is replace the screen frame because of a dent. P.S. My PC is running XP. Anyway, should I try "seeing" it on the G4? If I can't see it on the PC, is it a "fahgetaboutit"? Aaaahhh! I am proud of myself for replacing the drive and not having any parts left over. LOL!
So, when you plug it into your WIndows XP machine, does it show up in "My computer"? No? Try this,
Turn the computer off without the external hard drive being plugged in.
plug the external hard drive in a usb port, power up, the systems post boot up will find the drive and inform windows what hardware is installed.
When windows boots up, it will look at all the hardware and find the external hard drive, when windows finishes booting up you should be able to see the drive in my computer.
If you can't access your files,data recovery software can help.I used this one called Tenorshare Data Recovery to retrieve files off crashed HDD and it worked.
If needed,you can download it and scan your hard drive to preview whether your files can be recovered.BTW, you can get it from
Data Recovery for Mac OS X
Data Recovery for Windows OS
You will need to recover the data using something like this data recovery program.
http://www.asoftech.com/adr/
I've had to use it many times in the past but in this case you need to take out the hard drive from mac and put it into a Windows computer as an external drive or slave drive and run the software from there. It will rebuild the drive and hopefully recover the files.
Good luck.
SOURCE: I am trying to recover files from a hard drive
This guy may be able to help and works off of donations.
http://FreeDataRecovery.us
SOURCE: I recently use the Apricorn Drivewire to upgrade
DID YOU GO COMPUTER MANAGEMENT AND RUN THE WIZARD? THERE YOU CAN FORMAT SO IT WILL BE RECOGNIZED. HOPE THIS HELPS
http://www.any-data-recovery.com/topics/photo/undelete-photos.html
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