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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.
Jesse, does this help at all?
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Yay, Kristin's data!
I'm glad you were able to rescue it, even if the base machine was toast.
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.
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.
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.
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?
That would be great, Kristin.
Just wanted to say that I'm very impressed with Kristin's mad tech skills. Seriously.
Just wanted to say that I'm very impressed with Kristin's mad tech skills. Seriously.
Thanks! I really am rather ridiculously proud of myself. I ended up having to reinstall Leopard in order to migrate my data directly and lose the dual user problem, though, so it took longer than it should have. But right now? Fully functional shiny new laptop with all of my files and preferences and bookmarks and everything.
The alarm is going to go off in four and a half hours, but I'm trying not to think about that.
