OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

[Andre Garzia]

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