Hard Drive Down!
- Thread starter stinkyboy
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$100 buys you 1TB of drive space. Nobody has any excuse for losing data from a drive failure.
what about when that 1 TB drive fails ?
I feel your pain. Yesterday I was installing a security patch on my Macbook. The patch installation failed, and afterwards none of my programs would start. So I figured I'd reboot and try again. Well, that's where the joke was on me. My Macbook won't boot now. I get the chime, and the Apple logo with a circle status indicator beneath it, but it just stalls there. I have the Applecare Repair CD, but it's not recognizing it as bootable, and I have as of yet been unable to find the Mac OSX install cd that came with the computer. Ugh.
Also, I find it very funny that stinky's computer says "SMART not supported"
Also, I find it very funny that stinky's computer says "SMART not supported"
Raid 5, bitch.
Dude, that sucks. I've lost so much data over the years that it doesn't even phase me anymore.
You should know by now that Apple is the market leader in poorly tested patches. Doesn't sound as bad as the panther chipset bug.
It just works :lol:
It just works :lol:
Repeat after me..."I love Macs. Microsoft sucks."
Sorry about the data loss.
Sorry about the data loss.
average person with raid 5, yeah right.
but one of those setup that is 2 1TB's with Raid 1 would be another story
Well Played Sir!
Hey, you asked, and there is a way to deal with hard drive failure (that is, providing you are proactive
). And yes, Raid 1 is much more practical for the average consumer. But with the prices of hard drives still falling, cost is becoming much less of a limiting factor.
Your hard drive failed due to an OS upgrade?
What kind of an OS upgrade is THAT?!?
What kind of an OS upgrade is THAT?!?
nice to see Mac people have these problems too
Macs are so much better than PCs...right? ...right...?
But macs are fixable. Once a dell gets a virus it will never go away.
thats because Dell is the virus.
Sure it will. Just install Linux.
truth
A Mac one.Your hard drive failed due to an OS upgrade?
What kind of an OS upgrade is THAT?!?
My Dell Inspiron 5150 is on it's 6th year with all original hardware.
Weak man. \/\/
Best thing I have done in the last year.
I have that bitch set up as a time machine. Daily backups etc for my new(er) 24 inch iMac.
The ever-perfect Apple, of course!Your hard drive failed due to an OS upgrade?
What kind of an OS upgrade is THAT?!?
Mine upgraded just fine. I blame it on user error.
User error again. =P
Thank god Macs are so intuitively easy to use!
Someone woke up on the sassy side of the bed this morning.
I have been a PC user since I can remember (My dad worked for IBM when I was a kid) and I have been using mac's for 10+ years now. I still have had 1/8th (or less) the amount of issues with mac's than I have had with PC's.
I have also done software QA on both platforms now for 5+ years, the difference is pretty significant.
Just my experience I guess.
I have been a PC user since I can remember (My dad worked for IBM when I was a kid) and I have been using mac's for 10+ years now. I still have had 1/8th (or less) the amount of issues with mac's than I have had with PC's.
I have also done software QA on both platforms now for 5+ years, the difference is pretty significant.
Just my experience I guess.
I just LOL every time someone brags about iPhones, iPods, iBooks, iDildos, iCupcakes, etc. and claims how much better they all are over PC/M$ stuff, then it finally blows up in their face.
I prefer Dell/Microsoft stuff, but I'm certainly not going to give Bill Gates an eReach-Around every chance I get. That way when my computer explodes and I'm stuck on a phone for 2 hours with Muhammad in India reading my serial number for the 17th time, I don't look like a tremendous tool.
I prefer Dell/Microsoft stuff, but I'm certainly not going to give Bill Gates an eReach-Around every chance I get. That way when my computer explodes and I'm stuck on a phone for 2 hours with Muhammad in India reading my serial number for the 17th time, I don't look like a tremendous tool.
I have 2 portable laptop drives that are mirror images of each other. One is the backup, the other goes in the safe.
you could be giving Steve Jobs an iReach-around like everybody else.
Hell yeah!
Data Rescue II from Prosoft Engineering saves the day!
http://prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
Data Rescue II from Prosoft Engineering saves the day!
http://prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
Nice man. Glad to hear things worked out.
Expensive programs. Parted magic works great for free and supports linux, pc, or mac filesystems:
http://partedmagic.com/
http://partedmagic.com/
now dont forget to backup your backup pron from now on.
A Mackup, huh?I just did a "drag and drop"
Drive Genius is not giving me the option to repair...
I am enjoying my iPhone and only 5 weeks into our little affair, it dies
I went to the Apple store and they had no idea what was going on with it and gave me a new one. I'll count the days and back it up often.I have twin 2TB externals, one running as time machine and one that gets monthly updates to photo/music/doc collections (which is also in Time Machine). Apps/programs are replaceable, media is not...redundant backups ftw.
When I move to a place with decent bandwidth, I'll start doing online backups as well.
Hard drives are prone to failure, and for someone as technically inept as Stinky, such things usually mean disaster...
When I move to a place with decent bandwidth, I'll start doing online backups as well.
Hard drives are prone to failure, and for someone as technically inept as Stinky, such things usually mean disaster...