Any Mac IT guys or gals here? Help!

[Drunken Monkey]

I'd probably do what squiggles suggested in your case. Hard drives do have a breather hole (well technically a pressure valve outlet IIRC), but it's on the underside and it's highly unlikely that it's damaged (most likely there's been a short on the mainboard) and should be fine to move to an external cage or whatever.

[riffer]

Provided it speaks hfs+ you mean. So, a mac, in other words.

Dave

Not so fast Dave.

Macdrive is available on the torrents, and lets you read and write to HFS+ drives on a Windows system.

A handy bit of kit to have is a USB cable which has IDE 3.5", IDE 2.5" and SATA on a block on the end. Match that with a power supply with a Molex plug and you're away. That's how I deal with drives that need to be played with.

If you were down here I could sort you out easily.

[xwhatsit]

Provided it speaks hfs+ you mean. So, a mac, in other words.

Dave

And most of the unixes.

Like they say, all the three main platforms speak HFS+ these days. HFS is a little easier to get to, but it's still possible to deal with HFS+.