try this:
I just said that you're pretty. Even when you're covered in...engine grease, you're... No, especially, especially when you're covered in engine grease.
Simon ,'Jaynestown'
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le nubian - Mar 17, 2008 6:08:36 pm PDT #5199 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 6:16:51 pm PDT #5200 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, LeN. If I can get it to mount, that sounds like the ticket.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2008 6:21:54 pm PDT #5201 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ita - I don't have much else to offer... but is the drive still spinning? Have you tried replacing power and/or data cables? Reseated connections?
Kinda stabs in the dark, but easy to try.... (If the drive isn't spinning, there are tricks to getting it going one last time.)
Pix - Mar 17, 2008 6:48:09 pm PDT #5202 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
After a discouraging Genius Bar experience, I made an expensive decision: time to buy a new laptop. My old one was so trashed that the tech guy declared it DOA. It was going to cost more than $500 to send it out to salvage the hard drive, and I decided that was not worth it. I'd watched ND install a new hard drive just a couple of months ago, so I figured I might be able to do it myself. With some help. We already had the enclosure, after all.
So ND sent me a link to a step-by-step site, and guess what? I disassembled the old laptop, took out the old hard drive, installed it in the enclosure, booted up my new laptop, started the migration process...and it WORKED! I am exceptionally proud of myself right now.
Also poor. Extremely poor.
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2008 6:52:10 pm PDT #5203 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2008 6:53:21 pm PDT #5204 of 25501
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Yay, Kristin's data!
I'm glad you were able to rescue it, even if the base machine was toast.
Pix - Mar 17, 2008 7:03:01 pm PDT #5205 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
I'm glad you were able to rescue it, even if the base machine was toast.
Thanks, I am too. Now I'm fighting with the migration assistant, which decided to make TWO users for me, but the data is there somewhere. Huge relief.
DCJensen - Mar 17, 2008 7:13:56 pm PDT #5206 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Kristin,
As usual with Apple devices, should you and ND decide to chuck the remains of your old Macbook/Powerbook, I would love to be considered a repository for the challenge. (minus the HDD, of course).
I also understand ND's likely desire to check it out himself...or save it for parts.
Pix - Mar 17, 2008 7:17:57 pm PDT #5207 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
Daniel, since my tech goddessyness remains somewhat superficial, I am not planning to put this scary pile o' parts back together. I will let ND look at it, but if he doesn't want it, the pieces will head your way.
I can send you the original 80GB drive, actually, once we purge it. The one I removed was the new 160GB.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2008 7:35:09 pm PDT #5208 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks, tommy. I'm just too tired and petulant to do it right right now. Tomorrow, maybe.
I was just looking forward to Norton, you know?