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01-13-2013, 05:15 PM
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My macbook harddrive is almost about to die. What do I use to copy the files on there using my windows computer?
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01-13-2013, 05:22 PM
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Hooking the drive up to a Windows box is going to be a hassle. Better to just copy important files over the network while you still can. Put them all on iCloud and install iCloud on your Windows box.
Or, get a new drive, and use something like Acronis or Paragon to clone your old drive to the new one.
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01-13-2013, 05:53 PM
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If you can still turn it on
Carbon Copy Cloner
Use it to copy everything into another HD
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01-13-2013, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by CRS If you can still turn it on
Carbon Copy Cloner
Use it to copy everything into another HD | This.
Otherwise, if you have a friend with a Mac handy, you can use Target Disk mode to copy the drive over.
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01-13-2013, 09:01 PM
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I'd suggest just use carbon copy cloner as other suggested.
Ideally speaking though, try to see if you are able to setup a time machine backup.
Ever since I started using time machine, I've never looked back. It's fast (over TB), transparent and very efficient.
And whenever I need to reinstall, I just use it to restore everything back.
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01-13-2013, 11:08 PM
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Download Macdrive and run that on your Windows PC. They have a free trial which will be long enough for you to get the data off.
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01-14-2013, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Recon604 My macbook harddrive is almost about to die. What do I use to copy the files on there using my windows computer? | If you can still boot, I would copy the things you need most manually. This had happened to me and I was luckily able to copy everything I felt was important and needed saving to an external hard drive.
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01-14-2013, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by !MiKrofT Download Macdrive and run that on your Windows PC. They have a free trial which will be long enough for you to get the data off. | tats what i used, torrented tat  works liek a charm
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01-14-2013, 05:23 PM
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Carbon Copy Cloner is by far the best out there, but I don't think it's free anymore.
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01-17-2013, 10:17 PM
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Hookup an external drive and backup using time machine. Replace your HDD and re-install OSX then restore your data using time machine.
Problem with this is your external hard drive (or just a partition within the drive) requires to be formatted HFS which means if you will need to format.
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