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jesses

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 1, 2007
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Georgia
Hate to make the topic.. But I kinda dropped my guitar onto my macbook. The body of the guitar hit the right side of the keyboard and bam! Desktop froze, keyboard froze.. So now when I turn the mb on, it gets up to the grey screen with the grey apple for about ten seconds. Then the apple is replaced with a circle with a line through it. (kinda like those no smoking signs circle.) so..is by mb dead? In addition, the cd port is bent so I can't put any CDs in it.. Any ideas mac rumors?
 

HLdan

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Aug 22, 2007
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Sounds like you damaged the HDD. You may have to get a new HDD. Take it to the Apple store and see if your files can be salvaged, if no hopefully you've backed them up.
 

John01021988

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May 11, 2007
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Your HDD is dead, that is what I think, try getting it replaced and see if it works, but Applecare will not fix it free of charge
 

marold280

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Mar 16, 2008
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the same happened to me mate. just go to an apple store and they will replace the hard drive
i was out of warranty, they replaced the hard drive, for free, the same day. it was fantastic service
 

greenday123

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Dec 15, 2005
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NJ
Applecare definatly will not replace it. This is accidental damage which they dont cover, especially if the case is bent. Hopefully you have a backup of your data, because your hard drive is pretty much gone, you possibly need a new top case also if you wanna use your cd drive again.
 

jesses

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 1, 2007
155
1
Georgia
Ahh.. Well accidents happen. Last question..anyone know the average price for replacing the hdd? Most likely a 100+gb one?
 

hlr element

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Jan 10, 2009
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at first i thought how high did you drop the guitar from to bend the case and most likely ruin the HD... then i remembered electric are heavier than acoustic lol... sad to hear tho...
 

jesses

macrumors regular
Original poster
Apr 1, 2007
155
1
Georgia
Guitar is fine :)
anyway, looks like i'll be bringing the mb to the apple store friday.
Thanks!
 
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