help a sad clown
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- BrokenAC
Sad circumstances have caused me to post today. I see a lot of smart and savvy folk in these threads, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I have a black 13" macbook that has been ever so nice to me for the last few years. Audio, video and graphic design et al. My baby.
Yesterday, it started to spin the beach ball. Usually i wait it out, or worst case restart. I switched app after app, and then finally to the finder and they were all spinning the beach ball. It spun colorfully for a full 10 min before I decided to restart. When i did, i got something I haven't seen since my the heyday of my old G3 Tower (albeit, a nice OSXish version): an unchanging gray screen displaying a flashing folder with a question mark.
I took it to the genius bar, they booted off an external and found no trace of the drive at all—a veritable ghost in the machine. -_-
Its messed up as i was considering purchasing a new SeaGate 500g a mere 24 hours earlier, for Time Machine or what have u. So this stings all the more. I had unrecorded lyrics, unreleased songs, and a bunch audio/visual goodness, precious invaluable.. Plus i'd finally tamed C.C.'s Things too. ;)
Have any of you had a similar experience? How did u cope? What did u do?
Someone said get the Disk Warrior app, and Apple says i gotta hit up a data recovery spot.
Can anyone recommend a place that does data recovery (that doesn't cost $1000's)? :0im cryin on my keyboard. (not really, but kinda... yeah, i am).
Thanks folks.
Humbly yours,
Nathan
- uberdesigner0
this guy was my neighbor. really nice guy.
- robotron3k0
i understand what you're saying and i think everything will eventually work out fine.
- BrokenAC0
o jeez
i do like to laff
- boobs0
So you were just kidding?
- uberdesigner0
so did your applecare run out?
- Apple Care is still good till Oct. '09. but i have to recover first before gettin a new HD from AppleBrokenAC
- airey0
pay the cash and get it sorted. you'll feel better. and worse. bitter-sweet i guess is what i'm saying. i mean, you need your stuff. you want that stuff you worked on, collected, wrote, downloaded. you know. your stuff. so you gotta get it back. you need that stuff. the only way is to pay. and at least if you pay and get it back then it's back. then back it up and you'll have it twice. two times the goodness for under 2k. the money will hurt but in 6 months you'll think, why did i worry about spending the cash when i needed my stuff.
or don't. you have that option of course.
- uberdesigner0
I've seen Disk Warrior in action. I recommend it.
- flickster0
I swear that I've heard to put your hard drive in a freezer. Like this:
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com…- and here: http://www.trap17.co…flickster
- this is actually trueerikjonsson
- wow. maybe i should try :0BrokenAC
- ukit0
You expect me to read all that? Jesus
- flickster0
Do you... or he want all your/his shizznit back?
- grunttt0
i had a similar situation a few years ago about 4 days before a HUGE deadline... nothing was backed up of course. Disk Warrior saved my ass. Try that first and I hope wish you the best 'o luck.
- grunttt0
oh, and apple told me the same thing (data recovery) but then the tech support guy said "hold on a second" (talked it over with a fellow tech person) and recommended disk warrior. First time i had ever heard of it.
- QBNCitizen0
Back the fuck up!!
But get a new drive and DW first.
- erikjonsson0
i cant help but think of quite low of an "apple support person"
kind of like hardware / software knowledge of the average apple product user. relaly if the software had you push one putton a year over windows multiple choices ( however bad and confusing it might be ) what the fuck do you know. best comparission i can think of is "the lesson of life" knowwhatimean?
- BrokenAC0
Thanks for all your responses! ^_^ Even the clowns and Boobs' witticism. Well my second Genius Bar visit yielded nothing new. DW can't be used if the drive can't be found ;P. So I'm taking it to a place called Di-No in Pasadena tomorrow—my last attempt at diagnosing the issue. If Di-No can't do anything, i might* be shipping it to www.DriveSavers.com (which, apparently, is the company all the other company's in So. Cal. usually ship it to when they claim to do data recovery). Middle Men ha.
I just got off the phone with a DriveSavers guy mid-way through posting this and he gave me advice and pricing, with an edu-discount to boot!. To recover from my 80 gig could be anwhere from $428. to $1985. and $0. if they can't recover anything. Takes about a week. / Not sure if im gonna go through with it or not. Argg, putting a price on priceless shit is hard when you're kinda broke. Anyways, thanx again QBN. Oh, and that HD freezing technique is cool but nutzo! im too scared I'd void my AppleCare lol
"back that ass up" 4EVA
- brains0
that sucks.
on a lighter note, you should change your name to BrokenHD
- Jaline0
I also LOLed at the title of this thread, to be honest. But I feel bad for you. Good luck.
- BrokenHD0
thnx Brains,
like how "Gandalf The Gray" became "Gandalf the White..." ;)
