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hm_murdock:
the HD in my iBook died... I don't know what I'm going to do

Claris:
Get another Mac around and boot up your ibook in FireWire Target Disk Mode. You might have a few minutes where you can copy some data off and rescue it.

Pantso:

quote:Originally posted by jimmyjames.sytes.net:
the HD in my iBook died... I don't know what I'm going to do
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I can't believe this! My iBook's HD died as well yesterday. I managed to fire it up today for a few minutes but it started making some grinding noises and then died again   :(  

For the history, it was an iBook 600, purchased on September 2002. It has been torchured beyond imagination and the fact that the HD finally died does not surprise me much.

In any case Jimmy, we have the same poblem and what a fucking coincidence... 2 days later  :eek:

[ February 01, 2004: Message edited by: Panos ]

KernelPanic:
Isn't there some sort of trick involving a freezer and strange ritualistic tapping to revive a disk temporarily?

hm_murdock:
Claris,

already did it. it had been acting up lately, and I was running OS 9 at the time, and I tried to restart to OS X and it didn't show up in Startup Disk, and it wouldn't work when I booted holding down x.

so I firewired all my stuff over to my iMac in preparation to format and reinstall OS X.

I reinstalled, and restarted... X wouldn't start... after a few more reboots, the drive just quit.

and Panos, mine is also a fall 01 600 MHz. it's been well taken care of for the year that I've had it, but I'm the second owner. I also use it an awful lot. I've only got 384MB in it... when I replace the drive, I'll upgrade the RAM as well to cut down on drive grinding.

I'm still sad about it

oh well... I'll manage to get a replacement.

I might just save up $400 and let Powerbook ResQ handle it all, and let em throw a 512MB stick in it while they've got it open.

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