Removing and Rehousing the Hard Drive from your dead Apple Time Capsule

Step 4: Plug it in, turn it on.

 Get your case put together, plug everything in, hook the drive to your computer before you turn on the power to your drive. 

After being dead for more than a week, my time capsule(which I named The Delorean) came right back up with everything all there. There are a couple more drives that showed up called, "APconfic" and "APswap"...I don't know what they are and I'm not going to mess with them. I know the first time I tried to unmount one of them the entire thing unmounted, but I just unplugged the usb from my mac and plugged it right back in and they showed back up. 

In retrospect this is a brilliant product and I love it. I can use my computer anywhere in my network's range and have access to files/folders that are too large to keep on my macbook. I hope my new one doesn't poop out in a year or two, but if it does I'm just going to call apple again and keep my fingers crossed their customer service is still A+. Either way at this point they've already done me a solid, I've got 2 terabyte drives now for the price of 1 that I paid for in '08. 

Comments

[scubacenote]

Great! This makes me feel that I can probably rescue my files from my dead Mac Mini by following a similar procedure! Does anybody knows what kind of HD does the Mac Mini has? To buy the right housing that is.

[wolfy_9005]

Nice, too bad it is a mac :)

Might be cheaper for people to buy a 1TB 3.5" and a housing than a time capsule.

[oklacalit]

 definitely cheaper, although the bonus of the time capsule is the wireless router function, as well as the auto backups if you have a later mac os.