Data recovery

Peerzy

Peerzy

Peerzy

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Hello,

My OH has just sold her MBA and was going through the process of wiping the hard drive before posting it off only to remember that she'd left some vital documents and photos on it.

The laptop I believe has been 'wiped' (when you turn it on it begins to download OSX from the internet).

Normally I would grab the hard drive out of a laptop / PC, slave it into another PC and run some decent data recovery software (R Studio or similar). Obviously this isn't an option as the MBA hard drive is fixed. She has no TM backups or any other way of getting the data back.

What are my options? I have another MBA so can use that to create bootable bits and pieces like a USB or DVD.

Can I run recovery software from my MBA and 'mount' her MBA hard drive via a cable or something?
 
Maccy said:
I use some software called Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery, it's saved my bacon a few times - http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-osx-recovery.php

It's a bit pricey at $99 though.
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It would probably be worth the money if it gets everything back. How would we use it though without writing anything further to the MBA drive?

I can't slave it into another machine and the OS needs completely reinstalling so will overwrite tons of data?
 
So Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery couldn't find a single thing (the raw scan only took about an hour), any other software suggestions?
 
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