This week will forever mark in my mind the shocking and horrifying event of my Macbook’s hard drive failing spectacularly. I have always known that backing up data was important. And, I always intended to start doing it. Well, I really should have. This past Saturday, not even 4 hours after getting back from the Caribbean, my hard drive had a massive mechanical failure. I was not able to get it to a repair specialist until Monday… but I had held out the hope that my data would be salvageable, as I had run a hardware check on the machine, and it had come back okay. So, taking my drive to Save Your Mac, which I highly recommend, I had every hope that my data would be recovered and machine restored.
It was not to be however. Steve at Save Your Mac tried to load the data up on a gadget that reads the drive directly, using Disk Warrior. However, he could not even get the disk to mount or read at all. After about 10 minutes of nothing but a horrible clicking noise, we had to throw in the towel. So, I tried not to have a total panic attack inside the repair shop. He referred me to some disk recovery specialists, which I will be enlisting to help me recover the data. They will have to use some crazy expensive techniques, but hopefully the results will be worth the expenditure.
In the meantime, I am typing this from an almost empty, brand new hard drive. Eventually, I will get my cruise photos up for people to enjoy.
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