My hard drive died in my macbook and it no longer will start up. It will not mount in an external enclosure but disk utility is still reading that the hard drive is there, and I tried to repair disk and I am getting this error: (Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.) So my question is how do I backup my files if the hard drive won't mount? The only way that I have been able to see the hard drive is through disk utility. I just want to be clear that I am using mac os x snow leapard.
MacOS – Recovering data off of a dead hard drive
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Best Answer
I would try to remove the hard disk and mount it in another PC.
Than you can then try to use software for data recovery from a hard disk with the Journal File System.
Some examples: