OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Dan Shafer]

Andre,

Wow, man, I am sorry to hear this. It reminded me once again of the
necessity of keeping thiings backed up. I'm pretty meticulous about it but
every once in a whlie I let it slide.

Hope your woes can be solved soon.

Dan

On 1/15/07, Andre Garzia <soapdog at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> I was here coding some AJAX programs and developing libraries, my
> macbook just made a strange mechanical noise and then it was dead...
> when tried to boot, it made lots of mechanical noises and it never
> booted again. The noises are comming from the hard drive. I am
> assuming I lost everything. all my source code for the last year and
> everything I was working. I don't know what is broken... but I can't
> make it boot even from CDs...
>
> I don't know what I am to do now. I am writting from my old G4. I was
> doing some contract work and then it broke. The machine is now
> bricked. Can't boot from HD, Firewire, Network or CD, I've tried them
> all. The screen goes white, lot's of bad noises and the famous
> question mark of "no system folder". I can't even erase the PRAM...
> never chimes.
>
> sorry for this annoucement but it will be a while till I set
> everything up again. Tomorrow I'll go to apple repair service but
> they are making a fool of me for more than three months already. I
> was waiting for a replacement main board for this same machine. Now
> it appears, I'll need a new machine.
>
> My backup machine was broken some months ago, I had no money to buy
> the parts to build it up again. The G4 had no space for hosting the
> macbooks backup. I think I just lost all my revolution source code
> which was maybe 5 or 6 gb worth of code.
>
> andre
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