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How to Grab Data from Removed Drive?

The logic board on my 15" Ti Powerbook gave up the ghost. I may or may not get around to attempting this repair. Meantime I went out and got myself a shiny new iMac together with an iPad- it was time for something new and this setup will work well for me... anyway, to the problem - and my question

Is there a way for me to grab my old files etc. from the old hard drive? - if I remove the drive is there a connector or something that I can use to attach to the new mac to read and power the disc?

Any help would be appreciated

Thx in advance

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Get yourself a 2.5" IDE laptop drive enclosure, and get the data off that way if you can. This is assuming you never used FireVault, which if you did may mean you are screwed with recovery of the data. I have linked one below. You can also find these on sites like Amazon and eBay.

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thx for your feedback and suggestion... all is well in my world of macs now. my solution was slightly different due to my naivete, it turns out I did not even need to remove the hard disc- I was able to use firewire to my iMac and startup the powerbook as a "target" machine, it works perfectly as an external hard disc even without the logic-board working- and similar to your suggestion... I am going to use the powerbook HD as a (manual) backup disc for the iMac... and then when I get around to it (because I did not cannibalize the machine) maybe I can affect the repair to the powerbook replacing the board at a future stage or if I find one for real cheap, cheap, cheap!

thx again!

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thx for your feedback and suggestion... all is well in my world of macs now. my solution was slightly different due to my naivete, it turns out I did not even need to remove the hard disc- I was able to use firewire to my iMac and startup the powerbook as a "target" machine, it works perfectly as an external hard disc even without the logic-board working- and similar to your suggestion... I am going to use the powerbook HD as a (manual) backup disc for the iMac... and then when I get around to it (because I did not cannibalize the machine) maybe I can affect the repair to the powerbook replacing the board at a future stage or if I find one for real cheap, cheap, cheap!

thx again!

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If you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate deletion rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone. Data recovery is possible but you cannot process any additional writing operation to the hard drive but just shut your computer down. Actually when we delete files, the files themselves are not really erased-only the directory entries are deleted. The space which was occupied by the “deleted files” has been returned to the system as available for storage, but in fact that the “deleted files” are still on the drive. But if you write any data into the drive will overwrite the space of the "deleted files" and these files will be lost permanently. Also if you save a file into the hard drive with the same name of one file which has already put into the drive, the old one will be overwritten by the new one and cannot be recovered.

Maybe you can try uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac, it can recover empty trash on Mac only in three steps:

Step 1. Launch the software to scan the device where your files deleted

Step 2: Preview the scan result files and make mark if it is the one you find

Step 3: Recover files

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