i wanted to show serene orientalflower‘s post saying hi and that’s when my Mac wud not start up. all it did was show a little folder with the finder icon in it and a question mark.
i called my fren at the Mac shop and all her instructions were of no help.
i nearly cried and brought it in … they trouble-shooted and told me my hard-disc cudn’t get mounted. guess they saw the look on my face so my fren at the mac shop told me to come back in an hour while they fixed the problem.
serene and i headed over the Sungei Wang and had dinner, came back an hour later to find that all was ok.
their advice … don’t put ur mac to sleep without ur battery in it!!
lesson learnt … and a lesson i wanna share with everyone
i’ve been using 2 of my frens’ new MacBook Pro and somehow i get the feeling they’re not the same as the PowerBooks … even the touch pad is a little weird…. not as tactile.
conclusion …. yeah … the old Macs are still wonderful
hmmm …. whirred could mean u have a hard disc problem …. i’m sure it can be fixed la …. so long as the logic board is still working.
nooooooooooooo!!!! i’m a firm believer in old macs.. like my ibook is 7 years old! and seriously, from a design point of view, they really don’t make it like they used to. we inherited an old G4 with cinema display from the previous tenant of the flat here too, and while she got a bit cranky initially, it’s a beau to work with now… everyone should adopt an old mac!
My iBook whirred for the longest time before it died! I think it’s time to buy a new Mac just for safety’s sake!
and has gary told you his story about back up too.. his back up hdd gave a whirring sound and went kaput… just like that!
YIKE! Thanks for sharing!!! ARG
Back-up time…
i want the new ipod touch :S
disk warrior did the trick this time round
your frens case is really a WAH LIAO EH incident lor! hope its sorted out
argh … that’s beautiful!!!
sometimes i’m out for meetings for half a day i take out my battery
don’t want to overcharge my battery since i can’t be in office to unplug it when its fully charged
huh? can take out the battery one ah?
but why did you take it out anyway?
i just plug/unplug the cables when i use it at home. once the batt is full, i unplug it. the salesguy told me to do that so it will not overbloat the battery inside. something like how the handphone works.
LUCKY YOU!!!
Well I am eyeing the new IMAC
my friend dropped his lacie hdd and couldnt get it to mount again.
whats worst, disk utility and disk warrior both told me the partition is only 128gb instd of 250gb..
and to rub salt into the wound, its formatted in FAT32!