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Originally Posted by nebulosity.
Thanks guys,
Until a week or two ago I had my library on the iMac which has time machine backups every hour, but to free up some space I transferred the library to an external and was yet to buy another for backups. Only a day too late!
The drive seams to still spin, it just won't mount. I have tried repairing on the iMac but no go. It's in town now at a computer bloke who is going to run some of his program's on it. Lets hope he might able to get something off, I think the library is around 240GB.
Jo
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Hi Jo,
If it becomes a no-can-do repair (hopefully not), I have heard of drives whose platters are not damaged (and maybe even those that are), having their platters transferred in to another identical hard-drive, solely for the purpose of data recovery.
A possibility in the extreme
Best
JA