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Urgent Help Please! mac meltdown!!!
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Nooooo!!!!
Dude!
If Apple warranty is still in effect, you ALWAYS call Apple first!
They'd replace your drive for free!!
Oh boy
Oh well, if you live in America, you could ship me the old drive and I could try some repair utilities and ship it back. At least then, you'd have a Time Machine drive,
Dude!
If Apple warranty is still in effect, you ALWAYS call Apple first!
They'd replace your drive for free!!
Oh boy
Oh well, if you live in America, you could ship me the old drive and I could try some repair utilities and ship it back. At least then, you'd have a Time Machine drive,
I wasn't gonna touch it myself wouldn't risk voiding the warranty, it's only six months old (if even) and i got the protection plan so apple will be footing the bill for the replacement hard drive. Surprised me though, I was always told mac's were very reliable.
I'm quite a way from America, Ireland actually, but that woulda been handy to have. I've learnt my lesson though, next bit of cash I get gonna pick up an external, right now all my stuff off the hard drive is lying around on several sd cards and memory sticks and a few dvd-r's which is very unpractical and took a hell of a long time to do.
I'm quite a way from America, Ireland actually, but that woulda been handy to have. I've learnt my lesson though, next bit of cash I get gonna pick up an external, right now all my stuff off the hard drive is lying around on several sd cards and memory sticks and a few dvd-r's which is very unpractical and took a hell of a long time to do.
Did you send the Mac to an Apple service center or Apple store? You can't have the Mac fixed at an unaffiliated store, pay for the repair and send the bill to AppleCare.
You could afford to buy that "anti-virus" software, so you can afford a hard drive. How much money is it going to cost you when your Mac decides to eat your data? Consider the problems that you are having now. What if you lose this broken Mac and need to move to a new computer? How long will that take you and how much money is at risk? A $100 investment in an external backup drive can save your job.
What reply? Telling somebody that he'd better make a little investment in some data backup insurance before a bad Mac costs him many times that amount in losses? Maybe you've never had that horrified feeling when your Mac decides to stop working and all of your data is trapped on its hard drives or is lost permanently.
I feel that OP is not telling the complete truth. If the MP is new then its under warranty so why going to someone else? If he is in Ireland then its very easy to buy external drive and those are ridiculously cheap. I used to work in Ireland so I know how expensive things are especially booze so presuming that OP is under 40 then I'm sure he enjoyes going out few times a month. In that case he can miss one out and buy the drive. I don't think he is at home the whole time and really that poor not to be able to get one.
Its all about priorities. If he wants help then he should show that he does indeed want one and not to make excuses why something is not possible. If he is not willing to get external drive for back ups nor is he going to use DVD's to back up nor is he going to ask around his friends if someone has spare HDD he could borrow then he does NOT want the help that much.
Let him do it his way and give advice to those people that really need it and really appreciate it.
I believe that OP is either not legit or is too lazy to even accept the help people are giving here.
Its all about priorities. If he wants help then he should show that he does indeed want one and not to make excuses why something is not possible. If he is not willing to get external drive for back ups nor is he going to use DVD's to back up nor is he going to ask around his friends if someone has spare HDD he could borrow then he does NOT want the help that much.
Let him do it his way and give advice to those people that really need it and really appreciate it.
I believe that OP is either not legit or is too lazy to even accept the help people are giving here.
Please think twice before you make comments like that, you don't know a person's situation so you can't say anything, you're just coming across as a complete idiot. And that anti-virus program was free. I'm a college student who only recently gotten work in the design industry, living away from home with bills to pay and expenses to cover. It's enough to have a mac in the first place. There's no point buying an external hard drive if my electricity gets cut off so I wouldn't be using it anyway.
I brought it to an approved repairer authorised by apple so I don't have to worry about more than the petrol costs there
Your situation can be understood enough from the comments that you have made, and there is nothing really special about having a Mac that you bought from a regular store. You are taking a big risk by not having a way to fall back on a data backup. I bought an external hard drive for less than $75, and it has saved me from data-loss disasters several times. The losses caused by not having that backup would have amounted to more than $2,500 per incident, figuring in the lost computer time, labor costs, delays in production, and general frustration at having to rework everything again.
Regular Macs are not reliable enough to be working without a data redundancy. You may have noticed that there is a data-loss liability waiver that you have to agree to when a repair shop is trying to fix a bad Mac. There is no guarantee that you will not lose your data. If you can reformat your hard drive and not notice that anything is missing, then okay, you don't need a backup. If, however, the data on it is worth more than the cost of an external backup, you are taking a big risk with your job by not having that backup.
As I said before. I feel that you are too comfortable to actually do anything about it. Same goes with the priorities - you just recently got work in design industry but you still lack the drive to back up regularly etc.
I feel that your desire to improve your situation is very very low.
That is my opinion and I do not want to evolve as I can see that you would only make excuses.
I feel that your desire to improve your situation is very very low.
That is my opinion and I do not want to evolve as I can see that you would only make excuses.
Please think twice before you make comments like that, you don't know a person's situation so you can't say anything, you're just coming across as a complete idiot. And that anti-virus program was free. I'm a college student who only recently gotten work in the design industry, living away from home with bills to pay and expenses to cover. It's enough to have a mac in the first place. There's no point buying an external hard drive if my electricity gets cut off so I wouldn't be using it anyway.
I brought it to an approved repairer authorised by apple so I don't have to worry about more than the petrol costs there
I'm sorry to keep this going but I just find your comments completely arrogant and stupid, like seriously have you know clue about the real world? It's idiots like you that really get my blood boiling. Too comfortable to do anything about it? That's a joke. Like seriously as much as a person desires to improve their situation it ain't always that easy and I've come a hell of a long way but by the sounds of it you've been handed everything on a silver platter so you wouldn't really have a clue about that kinda stuff.
I was a bit of a fool to not have got an external when I had the chance but when I probably could've I didn't need it and I'm not the wisest on this stuff, if it was of very high importance I was always under the impression it could be recovered by the experts (my brother works with pc's building and repairing them and he's done that kinda thing for friends with pc's but he doesn't really do mac's). I've learnt my lesson though
Got my macbook back today. In the end it turned out it wasn't the hard drive that was the problem, it was the wire connected to my hard drive. Apparently the issue wasn't a very common one. It was replaced anyway, my hard drive still in tact the way i left it.
You got lucky this time. Don't expect that luck to hold out, especially if you are in the habit of installing software patches from Apple. After several data disasters, one involving a bad "security" update from Apple, I have learned to follow a rule: Backup your data before you lose it!