Help Recover Data Mac HDD

[nujinini]

Hello guys!

I have a friend who just called me tonight to ask for help regarding his HD.

He tried to mount it in a mac and linux machine but it does not detect. I initially told him that it seems that your HD crashed and theres nothing much we can do. Unless you want to bring that HD to a specialist which might not be worth the cost.

Can I please ask for some help on:

How to make sure that the HD in fact is dead since it cannot mount.

Or is there any command I can use in linux or a mac machine that can help mount and recover home folder.

Thank you so much guys!

[rokytnji]

Errr. I would start with putting it on a usb to hardrive enclosure with a external power supply. Put my ear close to it and listen if it spins up first. If nothing. It is toast. I have had hardrives physically/mechanically seize up on me before.

So no command will mount it if it is physically broken

[nujinini]

Errr. I would start with putting it on a usb to hardrive enclosure with a external power supply. Put my ear close to it and listen if it spins up first. If nothing. It is toast. I have had hardrives physically/mechanically seize up on me before.

So no command will mount it if it is physically broken

Hehehe... Thanks rok.... I was laughing here coz I was just imagining my friend paying House like using a stethoscope and listening to a heartbeat.

regards,

nujinini

[rokytnji]

Yeah, You know if fdisk -l don;t see it after connecting and powering it up. That the pooch is screwed.

fdisk -l has shown me mp3 micro-drives,cfcards, ide,sata,
you name it if it works.

[nujinini]

Yep! The pooch is screwed!

I asked him to attach in a linux machine and fdisk -l doesn't show anything.