PowerBook fire
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- Hizzle
oh f*ck.
I was having the logic board on my G4 PowerBook replaced , and the monkeys at my service centre LOST ALL MY FILES. Email address, contacts, apps, invoices, and endless doo-dads = bye. This has come as a total shock as I was told that it was a routine job. It's like having a small house fire. All data is lost, 'cept a few gigs of MP3's...great.
LESSON LEARNED. BACK UP YOUR SHIT ON A REGULAR BASIS.
So, I'm starting over. Please send all cards, brushes, patterns, gradients, nonsense vetor art, advice, and well wishes to finn@fenkell.ca
Thank-you NT, you're my only hope...
- sauerbraten0
had a similar episode with a panic screen back in Jan, bought a 200g external drive, etc. and am now backing up.
feels like you lost a friend..
- Hizzle0
indeed. i feel terrible...
- Soler0
isn't all data recoverable? Unless its a new HD There are specialists that can recover deleted data
- sauerbraten0
data recovery costs a TON, you could buy a new computer for the cost. it's not worth it in most cases.
- Soler0
just a thought :-] how much?
- rasko40
I bet the ser4vice centre were really apologetic weren't they? yeah shuure they were.
cunts :(
- Soler0
actually, THEy should pay for the data recovery. word
- chimchim0
was it an apple care authorized repair...if so..I bet you signed some fine print that doesn't hold them responsible for anything with data loss...
I sent my laptop in to get a logic board swapped...and it came back with a new 'clean' 60gb hard drive....so I know how you feel!
- Hizzle0
yep, i'm essentially f*cked.
going to ask for a discount on an extrnal storage drive though...that's the least that they could do...
also, thanks to the Apple Care I just bought, all this is free. takes a little sting out of the kick in the nuts I'm dealing with.
- Hizzle0
yep, i'm essentially f*cked.
going to ask for a discount on an extrnal storage drive though...that's the least that they could do...
also, thanks to the Apple Care I just bought, all this is free. takes a little sting out of the kick in the nuts I'm dealing with.
- ********0
that sucks man.. but really you should always back up your shit before you ship out your computer to get fixed... I would never trust anyone with all those files.
- Hizzle0
thank-you Captain Obvious. i was assured that it was a routine procedure, and no back-up was nescessary. i now know better...
- k0na_an0k0
Captain Obvious... hahaha.
- ********0
It's Professor Obvious...
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- Xrtions0
i had a HD crash last march...lost over 4 years of work. i almost cried.
- ribit0
call me something obvious too... but if you have anything of value on your HD...you should always assume it is going to get stolen/blow up/get hit by an asteroid/whatever at any time... go get a big Firewire HD and some backup software...it's not that expensive for (almost) total peace of mind...
- strabley0
yeah ive lost a lot of shit before, my hard drive in my box now is getting shaky, fucking sucks cause i have about 200 gig, most of it music and only maybe 40 of it program files, everything else is collected and made stuff for the past 4 years, if my box up and died i would probably sersiouly cry, then get serisouly drunk and punch a hole in my wall.
- ********0
you deserved it for buying a mac
- ********0
Yeah you should have bought a PC so when it broke you could have just ran to Kmart and got another one, or just borrowed your grandmother's PC for awhile. Some Kmart are open 24 Hours you know...
- warheros0
happens to all computers.
lost everything i had, probably 2 yrs of work/music/stuff all because one of my RAM cards crashed and wouldnt boot windows. FUCKERS.
ah well. im alive.