OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Jim Ault]

Andre,

Very, very sorry to hear about your dire circumstances.  There are a few
times when having to reprogram an app or two can be a good thing, but not
the whole working environment.

If you get back up and running, let me know.  It is so easy for me to set up
an area on my web host for file storage for you (login and pswd protected).
There would be no cost and 5 or 6 g would be just fine.

You should have said something to someone in the group, since many of us
have drive space available on the net somewhere.

I don't know anything about drive recovery, but perhaps someone out here
does.  Sometimes a college or university will have someone who can work
magic, especially with all the computer labs in the world these days.  Even
better, they might try to do it for very low cost.

Good luck and let me know.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 1/15/07 8:33 PM, "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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