Gutted indeed

shifty_uk

shifty_uk

shifty_uk

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On Wednesday night my Macbook decided to throw a fit, it shut down but unfortunately wouldn't restart. I sat to about 2 in the morning frantically browsing the manual, trying to find someway to get it sorted. I arranged and took it back to the store. I sat for a bit whilst they carried out quite a few tests, I was then told the hard drive was completely unfixable. So, I've just lost 22 months worth of design work which I done as an intern and a load of other useful documents. Completely gutted.

I do of course back my stuff up, most of my applications, music etc are on external hard drives.....just not my work. I completely forgot about it and didn't even consider making copies.

Because my top cover was damanged(known faul) the chap said he'd bump my warranty which would also cover the cost of a new hard drive.

I'm now macless for the time being. :(

Lesson: Back your stuff up!

/rant.
 
Eeeek thats very unlucky, it always seems to happen when you dont backup something!

Im so worried about hard drive failures that I must have something like 6 backups all over the place on other hard drives, USB drives, dvds etc. Havent had a drive fail on me yet (still have and use one of first model WD raptors in an old PC and still going strong!).
 
I'm the same. I've had PC hard drives for around 5 years that still run perfectly. Very surprised. I just want all my work back!

I have a question that I don't really see the point in making a new thread for. I'm hoping to buy a new monitor today(before the ocuk deals finish;)) how do you think the samsung SM-2253LW would run externally on the macbook?
 
It's easy to preach but there really is no excuse for not keeping backups, especially if you're using Leopard where Time Machine is just a click away.
 
Feek said:
It's easy to preach but there really is no excuse for not keeping backups, especially if you're using Leopard where Time Machine is just a click away.
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Correct. Hardware is replaceable, valuable work is not. I learnt the hard way when my iLamp hard drive died and poof went half of my honeymoon photos.
 
Do you still have the hard-drive? Have you thought about using a data recovery company? Some of them can do very clever things with severely damaged hard drives. It'd cost but I don't know how much.
 
as one of the guys said, there are places which can find the data and restore it, like how bad can it be damaged? i am sure these guys have recovered stuff from far worse cases! I would give em a ring.

Im sure they take the hard drive apart, take the plates out and rebuild the hard drive.
 
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