[thechat] Mac help

[Martin Burns]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Kevin Stevens wrote:

> A charity I work for has sent me the following plea for help, which I can't
> because I know nothing about Macs. Can anyone assist?

Throw Norton at it. If that doesn't work, take it to your local Apple
Centre, And once you've got the data off it, replace it with a
Seagate or Maxtor drive.

Cheers
Martin
(just bought a Seagate Barracuda today as I've only got 400MB left on my
hard drive and Photoshop fills that with scratch disk)

Cheers
Martin

>
> TIA
>
> Kevin Stevens
> kjs at ratking.co.uk
>
> <plea>
> We have a Macintosh G4 hard drive that has failed, it just makes a whirring
> noise and won't appear on the desktop. The details of the drive are: IBM
> Deskstar: DTLA-307030. 30Gb IDE.
>
> We only have a few MAC's so our level of technical  expertise in this area,
> certainly in respect of recovering data, is limited. If there is any way to
> retrieve information off of the hard drive, we'd be very grateful.
> </plea>

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