Death of a Hard Disk
It hasn’t happened to me before, a hard disk crashing, but this morning, the unthinkable took place – I booted up my G4 Powerbook, and it just stayed on the Apple Logo with the gray background – it couldn’t boot up. No reason. No advanced warning. Crap.
So I spent the entire day trying to do a safe boot, trying to boot in single-user mode, nothing worked. All I got was a gray screen staring back at me. Thinking that with the help of my OS X install disk I could run the Disk Utility from there, I drove home with that hope. But now as I sit here and writing this blog entry on my 733Mhz Dell Desktop, that didn’t work either. I just couldn’t get it to boot. Fortunately I have backed up some of my important files a few weeks ago to save on disk space, good thing my music has all been copied into my iPod. I’m now worried that I’ll lose the recent pictures I have taken, and some of the work in progress I’m working on my many websites.
I just spent $99 on Prosoft’s Data Rescue II, which is supposed to be the industry’s #1 data recovery software for the Mac. I will be Mac-less for a couple of days while I wait for the CD to arrive. If that doesn’t save my data, nothing will.
Wish me luck.