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MacBook: Dead Hard Drive

March 8th, 2007

I mentioned the death of my MacBook hard drive in my previous post. After getting home, I confirmed this was the case.

After booting up the MacBook off the install disk, the hard drive isn’t recognized by Disk Utility. I’m guessing it’s toast. I’ll have to take it in to my friendly neighborhood Apple Store and see what can be done. So it’ll be either Palo Alto or Burlingame. Luckily, this puppy is within the year warranty – my receipt says May, 2006.

While I’m getting the hard drive replaced, I should get the case fixed as its exhibiting the palm rest discoloration problem.

You might be wondering: Did I lose anything? Well, the MacBook is a secondary machine, so all the important stuff is on the iMac and its back up drive. Thankfully, I’ve been so into blogging lately that much of my work is online. And I did back up all my ripped copies of The Prisoner to said external drive.

I did lose several drafts of posts however, including “How To Quit Smoking With Kirk and Spock.” And the biggest tragedy of all: My How To Make Music Project has been completely destroyed. I’m a little peeved by that, but such is life.

Lastly, if you ever get a CD or DVD stuck in your MacBook or MacBook Pro drive, and various keyboard combinations don’t help you get it ejected, do the skinny cardboard trick. I used a business card. Thanks, Silver Mac.

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  • sang
    maybe one of those apple 'genius'es can salvage it for you...
  • Applecare will be your friend.

    Seriously, I always recommend buying Applecare for portables. They're subjected to many more rigors than a desktop and the components are expensive to replace. You'll get more than your money's worth if you have your 'book serviced just once. My current Powerbook has had its display replaced twice and its Superdrive replaced at no cost to me, thanks to AC. It's definitely worth it.

    As for losing drafts, I started using Google Docs while writing. Auto-save and off-site storage ensures that nothing unseemly happens to my work. Plus I can login from whatever computer I happen to be near whenever I have some thoughts to jot down.

    Technically, you can post straight to your blog from inside G.Docs, but it doesn't offer fine control over formatting.
  • Besides the Apple Care, this also made me think more about the usefulness of web applications. Google Docs deserves a closer look. I already use Gmail...
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