At $99, it’s another fairly hefty investment but between these two apps, you can rebuild and recover an amazing amount of data, if the drive’s mechanical functions are still operating normally after the drop.īack up your data to multiple destinations-to iCloud, to the $6 external flash drive you bought at the pharmacy, to Carbonite, to Backblaze, to an external hard drive via Time Machine, and elsewhere. It can also help you work around damaged sectors on the drive to recover every savable chunk of data. Prosoft Engineering’s Data Rescue 3 lets you mount and work with drives that may be too damaged to mount under OS X. If that happens, the drive can be mounted and will function normally enough to allow you to pull data from it. If you’re dealing with a physically damaged conventional hard drive, putting the device in a sealed bag and inserting it in a freezer for at least an hour may temporarily contract the drive’s overheated, overexpanded metal parts back into place. The deep-freeze last resort Albert Filice/Macworld Use the drive gently, don’t try to copy too much data all at once, and treat the just-dropped drive with kid gloves no matter what. At that moment you’re confronting the drive in the best possible condition it’ll be in after its fall. Whether you’re working with a potentially damaged hard drive inside the computer or you removed the drive and placed it in an external casing, the first boot is the most critical. You can always consult the Apple Authorized Service Provider Locator to find the nearest Apple Store, service provider, or consultant to help.
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