[Recon604]

My macbook harddrive is almost about to die. What do I use to copy the files on there using my windows computer?

[Soundy]

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.

[CRS]

If you can still turn it on

Carbon Copy Cloner

Use it to copy everything into another HD

[roastpuff]

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.

[Hehe]

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.

[!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.

[parm104]

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.

[Recon604]

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 :fullofwin: works liek a charm

[Senna4ever]

Carbon Copy Cloner is by far the best out there, but I don't think it's free anymore.

[Anjew]

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.