OT: lost everything, MacBook and its HD broken.

[Jim Carwardine]

Andre... It does sound like a head crash, which would have destroyed a chunk
of your disk which you have to recover through heroic effort.  If the noise
was caused by something else, as it happened to me some time ago, I took the
hard drive out of my cooked computer, put into a USB external housing,
connected it to another computer and got my data back... Jim


on 1/16/07 2:52 AM, Jim Ault wrote:

> 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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