Macbook hard drive about to die
 

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

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.

If you can still turn it on

Carbon Copy Cloner

Use it to copy everything into another HD

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Otherwise, if you have a friend with a Mac handy, you can use Target Disk mode to copy the drive over.

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.

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.

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.

tats what i used, torrented tat :fullofwin: works liek a charm

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

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.