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iisarenotnobody
Aug 31, 2009, 03:18 PM
I woke up and booted my iMac like any other day, but the computer was stuck on the gray apple screen, I tried resetting the PRAM and booting into safe mode. Nothing worked so I booted into my SL disc to check the drive. Lo and behold, my internal drive is failing. My question is a. how much does apple charge for drive replacements (yeah, I should have bought applecare I know) and b. can apple transfer the data to the new drive? I had a backup, but it got corrupted yesterday, just my luck.



vansouza
Aug 31, 2009, 03:24 PM
I woke up and booted my iMac like any other day, but the computer was stuck on the gray apple screen, I tried resetting the PRAM and booting into safe mode. Nothing worked so I booted into my SL disc to check the drive. Lo and behold, my internal drive is failing. My question is a. how much does apple charge for drive replacements (yeah, I should have bought applecare I know) and b. can apple transfer the data to the new drive? I had a backup, but it got corrupted yesterday, just my luck.

Your TimeMachine backups should be all that you need for restoring data; in fact for restoring everything.

iisarenotnobody
Aug 31, 2009, 03:27 PM
the drive that had all my time machine backups was corrupted.