OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Viktoras Didziulis]

Andre, 
 
Lets hope it is not hard drive, but motherboard of your laptop, in this case
strange sounds may also come out from hard drive devices... There are
external cases for hard drives to be connected through USB. They come in
different sizes for laptop and desktop hard drives and prices vary (~30-70
Eur per device). Once my PC (well, not Mac, but there should be similar
things in Mac world too) crashed like yours, so I took the drive out,
connected to the external case and made backup of all the remaining contents
using another computer with USB connection. Although that drive had lots of
bad sectors too and PC did not boot from it or any other device, but, lucky
I was, it worked this way... Just an idea to try... 
 
Viktoras 
 
-------Original Message------- 
 
From: Andre Garzia 
Date: 1/16/2007 6:34:01 AM 
To: Improvements to Revolution 
Subject: OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken. 
 
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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