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So after being so busted that DiskWarrior couldn’t even find it. And sounding so loud and sickly that my room mate could hear it in the next room. And basically being unable to start up for over three days. When I finally get to the Apple Service Depot it manages to start up. Furthermore despite [...]

Hopefully a few people remember the whole hard drive fiasco. How I missed school, bought an external drive, backed up my data and left my laptop to be serviced. They supposedly ran an entire days worth of load testing on it and found no problems. Now it won’t start up and diskwarrior can’t find it [...]

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 [...]

While researching/writing another post I wanted to make sure ‘fistful‘ was a single word not two words ‘fist‘ and full‘ and not hyphanated so I used the handy dandy built in Apple OS X dictionary application. In order to find out that fistful is indeed a word I had to first scroll past the following: [...]

So I suffered a really bad crash. My hard drive appears to have become stuck in some sort of loop. Even Diskwarrior might not be able to save it. Must stop typing update post later… OK this is what happend. I had just finished my fifth article on search engine optimization. I was in the [...]