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hard drive is failing. now won't boot

I can boot into the recovery mode.

is there a way to copy / clone the old hard drive to a new hard drive using another computer to do the clone. I have access to a windows computer but not to another mac computer. any suggestion or advice is greatly appreciated.

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Danny

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Danny,

It is hard to help without another Mac, especially if you are sure the hard drive is failing. If there is a Mac repair shop, not Apple, in your town maybe they could help you. They would have the tools to replace your hard drive and potentially recover some of the information/data from your old hard drive. Wish I could give you more. There are several others here who might have a better idea.

PS: Apple is not bad, but the cost to replace your hard drive might be steep. Just my opinion.

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Do a time machine backup, and then install a new drive. Once installed, you can restore from time machine.

If the drive is not accessible, you can try getting an external enclosure and doing data recovery on it.

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The MacBook will not boot except into recovery mode. If he recovers he would lose his data???

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Yeah there is the potential to, best to play it safe and get the data off the drive .

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Thanks for the input.

I have worked with apple, installed the OS on an external drive but the internal drive will not mount to see or retrieve what is on it.

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