Well, I reported it in the Shoutbox yesterday, but I wanted to make it "official" today. My Macbook (black, Core 2 Duo) is in the hospital. On Monday night, I had just done an upload to Flickr, using iPhoto's Flickr Upload plugin, when the screen froze and suddenly nothing would respond. The hard drive made a grinding noise, and then silence. I managed to shut her down, and restarted but now she would not boot up, either from hard drive or CD/DVD-ROM - all attempts stayed at a white screen until eventually a folder with a question mark popped up (the generic Apple icon for "I can't find a useable system folder").I brought her to the Apple Store in Farmington, CT last night and "Dr. Josh" took a quick look at her hard drive and confirmed it was "dead, dead, clickety-click, dead". They are ordering a new HD for me, and will install it and reimage it. Luckily, I had just done a backup before I installed iLife/iWork '08, so I won't lose too much.
In the meantime, I am writing this on an old PC laptop running Ubuntu. It is not a bad alternative, but I really miss my Mac. Nothing beats the ease-of-use or the feel of home.
Ah, these are indeed difficult days, Nomad.
YanıtlaSili had something like this happen to a G4 at work. I opened it up, blew on the connections, unplugged them and then plugged them back in and it magically started. I'm still not sure what the problem was, but we haven't had any problems with it since. Odd, quite awd.
YanıtlaSilYeah, I have had those times, too. But this time, they separated the HD from the whole unit and tried to access it. Click-click-click. I think the motor is gone, and can't move the arm across the platter. It has happened before with my Tibook.
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