dead hard drive on iMac -- need expert advice!

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 7:38:07 -0700, kf wrote
> (in message <f5950578.0408100638.4a35afe0@posting.google.com>) :
>
>

>>Over a month ago, my iMac died. I couldn't restart it from any
>>software recovery disks because the software didn't recognize my hard
>>drive.
>>
>>Then, last night, after it spent gathered dust on the shelf
>>(unplugged), I started it up and everthing seemed to work fine. I
>>quickly gathered some data that I needed from the machine and started
>>to burn it on to a disk. When I returned to check on the disk, I saw
>>the computer had died again.
>>
>>This morning, I cannot get the thing to start up and software restore
>>disks don't recognize the hard drive.
>>
>>Does anyone have any advice on how to recover this data?
>>
>>Thanks!

>
>
> So if I understand correctly, you can boot the machine from a CD, but after
> doing so, you can't get to the HD because it is not being seen by the OS. If
> this is the case, then you have two likely methods of recovering your data.
> One, that the HD works long enough to get you data off of it. Two, that you
> send the HD to a professional data recovery company and let them work their
> magic.
>
> Steve
>

> three - try using Norto utilities or Diskwarrior and see if you can
> recover it
>
> Steve wrote:
>

> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 7:38:07 -0700, kf wrote
> > (in message <f5950578.0408100638.4a35afe0@posting.google.com>) :
> >
> >

> >>Over a month ago, my iMac died. I couldn't restart it from any
> >>software recovery disks because the software didn't recognize my hard
> >>drive.
> >>
> >>Then, last night, after it spent gathered dust on the shelf
> >>(unplugged), I started it up and everthing seemed to work fine. I
> >>quickly gathered some data that I needed from the machine and started
> >>to burn it on to a disk. When I returned to check on the disk, I saw
> >>the computer had died again.
> >>
> >>This morning, I cannot get the thing to start up and software restore
> >>disks don't recognize the hard drive.
> >>
> >>Does anyone have any advice on how to recover this data?
> >>
> >>Thanks!

> >
> >
> > So if I understand correctly, you can boot the machine from a CD, but after
> > doing so, you can't get to the HD because it is not being seen by the OS.
> > If
> > this is the case, then you have two likely methods of recovering your data.
> > One, that the HD works long enough to get you data off of it. Two, that you
> > send the HD to a professional data recovery company and let them work their
> > magic.
> >
> > Steve
> >