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My MacBookPro’s harddrive is shot, useless, needs to be replaced and all its data is lost. I had backed up a certain amount of stuff, my photos luckily, but some data is lost. This is my second harddrive failure on this computer in less than a year, so frustrating. Last time I bit the bullet and paid for the costly data recovery, I don’t think I will this time. I know I am sucker for not backing up more often (or using time machine which I will try from now on) but it’s times like these I sure long for my old and reliable G3 laptop. Never had one problem with it, took a few nasty spills too, it’s still working. Anyway, sorry for the rant, all I can say is: back up! These things stop working in the least expected moments.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Brutta storia
Congratulazioni invece per la vostra splendida bimba!!
March 18th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Oh, man. I’m so sorry to hear that. This is the greatest drawback to the digital age, to be sure. At least paper takes dramatic events like flood and fire to destroy it instantly. A computer problem can come without warning and with no clear explanation. And this news just as I’m preparing to buy a new MacBook Pro of my own. This makes me a bit nervous.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I have a first-series MacBook and the hard drive died in the first 6 months. But my iBook G3, from 2001, has never had a problem.
What’s with that?
Although, I will say that we create/download & delete much bigger files these days than just a few years ago. That has to be hard on drives. But they shouldn’t being dying this fast.
March 19th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Sorry to hear about your loss, I did a quick search engine check and found this link, which seems to contain some tips (seems a lot of people have the same issue)
http://www.silvermac.com/2006/how-to-save-your-macbook-pro-hard-drive/
March 20th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Sucks. Well, this hint comes a little bit too late, but anyway…
If you are not using Leopard (in which case, limiting the hint to suggesting Time Machine would be being sort of a smart-ass), you can accomplish pretty much the same thing as TM (without the nice UI and 1 click set-up, but oh well) with rsnapshot (i.e. backup everything, no questions asked, with versioning).
Useful links could be: