I've gave up!
The laptop restored on another HDD works fine - albeit no data on the disk.
Clonezilla looks too risky for me, I could end cloning the wrong HDD.
My other Linux boot CD (which works brilliantly in any other instance) sees exactly the same with the suspect HDD plugged via a USB SATA caddy.
Handing it back to her with the website of the pro recovery people.
I've learned a bit about Mac along the way.
Thanks for all your replies.
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