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[sanura]

ONLY BAD THINGS EVER COME OF CLEANING.

I warn you all, with great panic, pain and sadness in my heart. I tried to clean my room, so my computer fell off my bed. I am writing in a state of near-hysteria from my mom's computer. We leave the 9th. I want to take my computer with me. I want it to work. It won't wake up. It has a blinky question mark in a folder after the grey screen of death, and it won't go any further than that. I want to take it to the Apple Store. It has my life on it, and I can't make backups of my life. Breathe, computer, breathe! Open your eyes! You're gonna be okay!

ETA: If I knew anything about computers, I would work at the Apple Store. It's like Rice; everyone there is smart and weird enough to be interesting. Turns out I broke the read head, which means they can't recover the drive, which means they have to replace it and I have to pay DriveSavers about $2000 to recover the data because they're the only ones who can break the seal under the Apple warranty. I'd just leave it and replace the music, but historical Word documents and AIM conversations from middle school onwards were on there, as well as my book and a lot of recordings (of myself and others) I can't replace.

So they're putting in a new drive for $235 and it happens to have 20 more gigs of space than the old one. It eats my soul that I could have simply backed everything up on the 180 gig USB drive I was given. But I didn't, and now I will pay.

Comments

[drewids.livejournal.com]

If it's still under warranty, or even not, I might actually suggest you take it to Mactronics. It's in the big bank/office building at the corner of Holcombe and Main, diagonally across from the Pizza Hut. The guy that does the repairs there is amazing, and he's Apple licensed, so if it's still under warranty it shouldn't cost anything (get an estimate first).

But the blinking folder thing means it can't find a system folder to boot from. So it means something's wrong with your hard drive, probably a wire just came loose, which you could check yourself.

Good luck, though.

[sanura.livejournal.com]

I already made an appointment to take it to the Apple Store in the Galleria. My uncle (the geek guru, though usually for PCs) says I may have knocked the drive sideways so it can't find anything to start up from; it made severely bad hard drive vroom-clicky noises right when I first tried to reboot it, but I can't hear it spinning or trying to spin now.

[(Anonymous)]

Sad! :(
Nia