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tommyrot - Mar 17, 2008 6:21:54 pm PDT #5201 of 25513
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 25513
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 25513
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Jesse, does this help at all?

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P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2008 6:53:21 pm PDT #5204 of 25513
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 25513
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 25513
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 25513
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 25513
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?

DCJensen - Mar 17, 2008 7:38:03 pm PDT #5209 of 25513
All is well that ends in pizza.

That would be great, Kristin.

Stephanie - Mar 17, 2008 10:36:58 pm PDT #5210 of 25513
Trust my rage

Just wanted to say that I'm very impressed with Kristin's mad tech skills. Seriously.

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