My Powerbook Hard Drive Crashed (WHY MUST I CRY!?)
Young_Phonics
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*sigh*Yeah and basically all my mp3's for Microwave are now gone and I have to try and remember what I had on their.According to MAC I can get a brand new hard drive no problemo since it's still under warranty but if I wanted to get my old hard drive resurected I'll have to take to one of those data retrival spots (I'm leaning towards Lazuras in S.F.) for a free estimateMy point, should I even bother leaving my computer tied up and out of comission for 3-5 days? How much does this cost considering I had about 35 gigs out of 40 out it filled? Can I choose which files in my hard drive I want saved? 
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Mine just went out recently as well, have had it nearly 3 years. I had a chance to save my Itunes before hand luckily but that is all I could get off of it before it wouldnt turn on anymore.
I have applecare so I sent it on a tuesday and had it back in my hands with a brand new hardrive on thursday evening, I would have had it @ 10 am thurs. but missed the fedex guy. Less than 72 hours sent and returned and things are running smooth now.
If all else fails, Find the friend with the phattest E-Crates and copy their folders to get some music back, but send it in to apple for sure. Good Luck.
Yeah, luckily i got a bunch of good deejay dudes/true blue homies who've already offered. I'm more caught up about my "raer" that took forever to record and random cutty mp3's that i've lost.
(damn, am I really tripping about "rare" mp3's? wtf...!??!?!
What exactly happened to your hard drive? I know on my old iMac, the hard drive crapped out, and I thought it was going to cost me an arm and a leg to get all that data recovered. As it turned out, the big problem was that the hard drive wasn't spinning fast enough, which meant the computer couldn't even start up. I took it in to a repair spot, and the guy said, "I can get this up and running again, but it's going to die again pretty quickly."
So as it turned out, I spent $50, the guy made it so that the computer would run again, I started it up once, all my data was still there, I dumped it all onto an external drive, and that was it.
I don't know if your situation is similar, but it's possible that all is not lost.
yeah it was making a weird clicking sound....DON'T TEASE ME! I NEED MY COLLECTION OF GANGSTARR INSTRUMETNALS BACK!
here is a start
I'm guessing applecare will want the busted drive before they give you the new one.
Now, go backup your shit.
Try using a pc with getdataback, have an external drive ready. It got some stuff off a drive i had that was clicking. If you've completely given up, ive been told that putting the drive in the freezer can help. Ive never tried myself, but maybe someone on here can school me on how long to leave it in, i think i remember hearing no more than 15 min. Just have drive space ready if all your ish mircaculously appears.
that sucks. I had a hard drive die on me about 6 months ago and it sucked. My warranty had just ended, so apple basically wanted half of the computer's value to replace the hard drive (mac mini). I bought a drive myself and replaced it for less than half the cost.
Like mentioned before, data recovery is really expensive and probably not worth it for you. My suggestion would be to try a few things before apple replaces it.
There is a way to hook up the laptop with a firewire cable connected to another computer and try to force it to show up as an external hard drive. You may be able to open up your music folders that way.
The other thing I would suggest is to ask apple if you can have the broken hard drive back. If you can get it back then you can always pop that hard drive into a (laptop size) clam shell and try to boot it up or run disk utility on it. It's good to have. Maybe you'll figure it out or find some program to help you. Or maybe you'll dj a party with a data recovery person who you'll befriend and he'll fix it. You might as well ask for it back and see what you can do. Otherwise they'll just toss it in the trash.
If you went to the mac store and the "genius" wasn't able to even locate any of your folders or even an image of your hard drive then it's probably gone for good. The shitty thing is that all the information is there, but it's probably a bad sequence at the beginning of the drive that is fucking up everything after it. That's when you have to pay the big bucks for the data detectives to figure it out. It's not worth it though. Consider it a fresh start. You won't be lugging around all those heavy crates with various random mp3s you never played, but kept around for some reason.
Word Tommy. I just dropped it off and the dude himself was a deejay (!) so hopefully he'll be sympathetic and a straight shooter.
I mentioned the whole reading the drive via a clam shell or through firewire and the guy at the Mac store didn't really see that as an option. And yeah basically the computer WILL start if the HD is removed but if it's connected it won't. Regardless, I'm going to keep the HD because i'm an optimistic pack-rat like that.
Luckily I'm still under warranty and have an external drive (500 gigs?) ready.
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