Okay it’s been 2 weeks now that my mac is in a coma, i brought it to the apple store and got a free consultation with the apple genius. They told me basically my hard drive is corrupted, so it will cost about 300 bucks or so to fix it. Then I decided to take it home, I asked my ex-coworker whether he can save my mac or not.. he said no.. dang it PC people! and then I called another apple sercive place in town, they told me it will cost $75 (min. fee) and then 90 bucks an hour after that (plus the cost of a hard drive). So I was like.. nah.. I’m smart enough to take care of this matter.
So I bought 640 GB Hard drive for $89 dollars, then I purchased a Mad Dog MegaVault 3.5″ Anodized SATA/IDE Drive Enclosure for $26.97, then to rescue some of my data from my old HD I also purchased Data Rescue software for $26.01 from ebay (retail is $99). So total cost: $141.98.
HAH! take that man!!! women, we can do what guys can/can’t do!
So I youtubed how to open my imac G5, and took out my drive, placed the drive on my external case and use my old power mac G4 to rescue my data. I got about 75GB worth of files recovered. Now I just need to wait for my new HD so I can transfer all that files back to my mac.
Now.. the challenge is to put stuff back together where it belongs.. I’m famous with taking stuff apart but not really in putting stuff back together
hehehehe.












