OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Alex Shaw]

Hi Andre

The same thing happened to my old ibook recently. I didn't get the noise 
but the S.M.A.R.T. status of the HD was "failed".

I was only able to retrieve the data by booting up a live cd of Ubuntu 
(PPC) & followed the instructions below..

http://jclark.org/weblog/2005/05/24/ubuntumount/

Eventually the whole drive needed to be replaced because it wouldn't 
install either OSX or ubuntu.

Good Luck!

regards
alex

Andre Garzia 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...

> SNIP