I have an OSX laptop HD that crashed and when I took it to the apple store they told me they might be able to recover some of the data for 150$. I have an external hard drive bay for it but what software do I need for this to work.
PS: I have a windows 7 desktop.
You shouldn't need any software, If you put the HD in the External Drive bay Windows should pick it up in Disk Management. Allthough I'm not sure if the same rules apply for OSX Drives.
When I put the disk in the bay windows told me that access was denied to the disk. That was the only reaction windows had to the disk, it wouldn't even tell me disk size or name.
Windows cannot read OSX partitions, if you have a live CD disk for linux you might be able to access it.
You'd need some software that enabled Windows to read an OSX partition, which generally doesn't come free.
You may then be able to pull off data with an average Windows based data retrieval tool, however it may not like the fact you're using non native means to read the data.
You can copy the partitions to a new drive with a Gparted live cd.
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