Hard Drive Fiasco

Although it was a while ago now and the pain has lessened. I was really worried my hard drive was going to die on me and I would be without my Mac for a considerable time. I actually backup, but my backups are in Canada. This means anything I’ve worked on since I was in China would be at risk. I did the best I could with my iPod but, the best solution would be to clone the entire drive in the PowerBook.

I thought the service depot in Beijing would do it for me but no. This lead to a mad scramble to buy another external hard drive. I had only just bought my Lacie d2 160Gb Triple Interface before I left for China. Luckily there was a Mac store nearby and I was able to buy an external firewire drive. There was only one model to choose from and after considerable phone calls to Danna, who was concerned I would pay too much. I bought a BUSLink USB 2.0/1394 Combo drive. This is actually a shell and they put an 80Gb Seagate hard drive in it for me and formatted it and tested it.

I then had to go to Starbucks and backup my data. I went to Starbucks because I wanted internet access but it wasn’t working. Luckily I had already download PsyncX and Carbon Copy Cloner. I was able to backup my data and then return to the service depot but it took a long time. I missed two classes.

I also had to buy a power bar so I could plug in both my laptop power supply and the hard drive power supply. The drive set me back 930 RMB I think. I had to get the money out of the bank, but there was one close at hand. The shop I visited was called Mac & Fangyan. I dubbed the setup Road Warrior Musk it even sounds authentic.

This entry was originaly posted on November 7th, 2005, it was last edited on August 13th, 2019 and is filed under: Technology and tagged: Apple, Carbon Copy Cloner, Hard Drive, PowerBook.