Help! Mac Virgin - Volume HD cannot be repaired..Disk Warrior?

[ellengrace4]

Good Morning,

I hope somebody can help!

I work in tech support for PC however I couldn't be any more of a mac novoice. My sisters Macbook Pro will not boot and I have gone through various diagnosis tips from various forums online.

The problem is with the following

'Keys Out of Order'
'Rebuilding B-tree'
The Volume HD could not be reapired'

The built in disk utility advises that I need to back up files and reformat/reinstall OS. The whole problem is that my sister has STUPIDLY never backed anything up and has files on there that are ridiciously important to her.

I have found a download for 'Disk Warrior' which seems like it could be a saviour, however the only other computer I have is my Windows Laptop and an extrernal hard drive...is there anything I can do at all??

Thanks so much in advance

 

[oldscribe]

Hi and welcome,

This does show how important regular backups are,there is a program you can download to your PC called MacDrive 7 program that once you install will let you read transfer files from the Mac drive.Here is a link.
http://download.cnet.com/MacDrive-Standard/3000-2248_4-10313024.html

Or if you or she has a friend running a Mac put her HD into a caddy and connect to there Mac.