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3.5″ Hard Drive Repair or Upgrade (Apple)

Starting with the 2009 iMac, Apple installed proprietary firmware on all iMac hard drives.  That means that a normal hard drive doesn’t work properly.  Thankfully, there are a couple ways around that problem.  For the time being, each iMac hard drive repair/upgrade for the 2009 and later machines includes a software fix for Apple’s close-mindedness.  Choose a drive size below to get started.

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Hardware-Based Data Recovery

In extreme cases of data loss, we may have to bump up the recovery to a professional-grade solution.  Hardware-based data recovery is expensive and tedious but it will usually retrieve the data from a broken hard drive.  We’ll bring your drive into a clean room environment and do our best to extract the data from the hard drive.

This item is applicable for nearly every Mac.  We cannot currently recover data from iOS devices.

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Software-Based Data Recovery

If your hard drive just isn’t cooperating — but it’s still ticking — we may be able to recover your files with our software-based solutions.  Even if the drive doesn’t “mount,” we can sometimes communicate with the drive enough to grab the files you need.  We’ll hook your hard drive up to our machines and do our best to extract the data.

This item is applicable for nearly every Mac.  We cannot currently recover data from iOS devices.

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2.5″ Hard Drive Repair or Upgrade

Adding a larger, faster and more power efficient hard drive is a great way to rejuvenate your Mac.  If your hard drive is full, having trouble and causing your Mac to slow down or is over a few years old… it’s time to consider a replacement.  Hard drives should be replaced every few years to ensure the reliability of your Mac and its data.

This hard drive upgrade/repair is good for MacBook and MacBook Pros.  It is also compatible with all Mac minis.

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3.5″ Hard Drive Repair or Upgrade

Adding a larger, faster and more power efficient hard drive is a great way to rejuvenate your Mac.  If your hard drive is full, having trouble and causing your Mac to slow down or is over a few years old… it’s time to consider a replacement.  Hard drives should be replaced every few years to ensure the reliability of your Mac and its data.

This hard drive upgrade/repair is good for all Mac Pros.  It is also compatible with all iMac models before late 2009.

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Dead hard drive? Here are some options.

It’s the Friday night before your term paper is due and you’re planning to do nothing but edit all weekend. You say goodbye to your friends, hunker down with a warm cup of coffee and press the power button on your Mac. To your dismay, the computer does nothing but sit at the Apple logo [...]

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How-To: Create an infallible backup.

The title itself is nearly impossible to obtain but we have one solution for you that might actually come close. It’s as easy as Time Machine (well, it sort of is Time Machine) and one piece of hardware. Most people are perfectly suited with an external hard drive connected to their Mac via firewire. With [...]

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