Hey everyone,
I'm about at my wits end and figured this was the last place to turn before I jump off the roof of my house. A few days ago, my dog knocked my 12" Powerbook off the couch, while it was in standby mode. After this happened, my wife opened it up and she said it seemed to be working fine. However, later in the day, when I opened it up, the screen remained black and just kinda running in limbo.
So, I reset and what I kept running into was during the initial boot up, when the Apple icon is displayed with the little progress wheel spinning below it, the screen tints grey and a warning pops up. I forget what all it says, but essentially I need to restart, in about 6 different languages. When I do this, it keeps looping to this same issue, and I cannot get past the boot up process.
About a year ago, I replaced the hard drive and logic board (a little unecessary, because all that was bad was the cable from the HD to the board) and would receive this same warning when I would pick up the computer too fast with only the left side being held. Kinda weird, but I wasn't sure if it was a hard drive issue, or something else. Anyway, today I went in and replaced the logic board back to the original (1.0 GHz) to see if it was an issue with the board, since I never had any issues before the hardware change.
Now what happens is that when I start up, a little icon of the world in a square box flashes for about 15 seconds, followed by a folder icon with an alternating '?' and Finder icon. I'm guessing that the OS can't be found. I have a bit of information on the hard drive that I want to recover, since I don't remember what I have put on since the last backup.
My question: Is there any other way to gain access to the hard drive without going to a data recovery service? And if not, any suggestions on where to get this done?
Original Hardware:
12" PowerBook 1.0 GHz w/ 40 GB hard drive (I'm pretty sure it was a 40, can't find it anywhere in the house)
Hardware at time of error:
1.25 GHz w/ 120 GB hard drive
Current configuration w/ no boot up:
1.0 GHz w/ 120 GB hard drive
-Matt
I'm about at my wits end and figured this was the last place to turn before I jump off the roof of my house. A few days ago, my dog knocked my 12" Powerbook off the couch, while it was in standby mode. After this happened, my wife opened it up and she said it seemed to be working fine. However, later in the day, when I opened it up, the screen remained black and just kinda running in limbo.
So, I reset and what I kept running into was during the initial boot up, when the Apple icon is displayed with the little progress wheel spinning below it, the screen tints grey and a warning pops up. I forget what all it says, but essentially I need to restart, in about 6 different languages. When I do this, it keeps looping to this same issue, and I cannot get past the boot up process.
About a year ago, I replaced the hard drive and logic board (a little unecessary, because all that was bad was the cable from the HD to the board) and would receive this same warning when I would pick up the computer too fast with only the left side being held. Kinda weird, but I wasn't sure if it was a hard drive issue, or something else. Anyway, today I went in and replaced the logic board back to the original (1.0 GHz) to see if it was an issue with the board, since I never had any issues before the hardware change.
Now what happens is that when I start up, a little icon of the world in a square box flashes for about 15 seconds, followed by a folder icon with an alternating '?' and Finder icon. I'm guessing that the OS can't be found. I have a bit of information on the hard drive that I want to recover, since I don't remember what I have put on since the last backup.
My question: Is there any other way to gain access to the hard drive without going to a data recovery service? And if not, any suggestions on where to get this done?
Original Hardware:
12" PowerBook 1.0 GHz w/ 40 GB hard drive (I'm pretty sure it was a 40, can't find it anywhere in the house)
Hardware at time of error:
1.25 GHz w/ 120 GB hard drive
Current configuration w/ no boot up:
1.0 GHz w/ 120 GB hard drive
-Matt