OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Todd Higgins]

Andre,

Do not have you macbook shipped out to Apple for repair before you  
recover your data.  Apple will typically reformat (or even replace) a  
hard drive even when it is in for unrelated repairs.

  It is possible that the hard drive has failed and is keeping the  
system from booting from the other drives.  As others have suggested,  
disconnect the drive from the machine and try to boot from another  
device. But before you do that, have you tried Firewire target disk  
mode? (Try to start the machine with the T key held down)?

What was your backup machine and what's broken?  I might have the  
spare part you need.

Good Luck,

Todd


On Jan 15, 2007, at 11:33 PM, 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...
>
> 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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