So tonight, I was checking Facebook when it seemed my iMac felt slow. I thought i had too many torrents running so I went to shut some off and my computer froze, really bad. I had to hit the power switch. When I went to turn it back on i saw a folder with a "?" question mark on it, and have not been able to boot up since.
I found the help topics on Apples website and have done everything, inserted the install DVD's and checked Disk Utility and it just shows a drive "Media" and says its 0 bytes in size. After trying everything several times I once got it to show the size of the drive, but it said "unpartitioned". I have not been able to get it to show that again however.
This is an Intel iMac that just came out of the 1 year warranty in August. Like a cheap idiot, I did not buy Apple care, but thats the least of my worries.
I have 3+ years of un-backed up family photos on there that I CANNOT loose. Does it sound like my drive is fried for good? Should I bring it to Apple, or an authorized mac repair place? Can I do anything? HELP!!!
UPDATE: On Page 3
I found the help topics on Apples website and have done everything, inserted the install DVD's and checked Disk Utility and it just shows a drive "Media" and says its 0 bytes in size. After trying everything several times I once got it to show the size of the drive, but it said "unpartitioned". I have not been able to get it to show that again however.
This is an Intel iMac that just came out of the 1 year warranty in August. Like a cheap idiot, I did not buy Apple care, but thats the least of my worries.
I have 3+ years of un-backed up family photos on there that I CANNOT loose. Does it sound like my drive is fried for good? Should I bring it to Apple, or an authorized mac repair place? Can I do anything? HELP!!!
UPDATE: On Page 3