Yup, It happened again. Due to a problem identical to that described in a previous post, my laptop was sent in to Apple for repairs. This time around, I wasn’t able even to grab my latest work off of the drive, and of course, haven’t backed up in a while. I hope to have the unit back by Thursday, 2005.04.14. Sad story is, I wasn’t even able to grab my latest work off of the drive before the machine sputtered and died.
Joe, the Apple representative I spoke with at the Co-Op, seemed fairly confident that they would just replace the drive this time. On the service request that gets sent to the support tehcnician, Joe wrote, “The hard drive refuses to mount. Loud vibrations, akin to the blood curdling wail of a harpee, bring men to their knees.“.
Before doing all the paperwork with Joe, I asked if I might borrow a firewire cable and try to mount the drive on one of the machines there at the Co-Op, so as to perhaps salvage some of the data. It was a no-go. The drive wouldn’t even seek, and it made Disk Utility on the other computer go nuts. My last backup was a while back, too. Serves me right, I suppose. Let’s just say I’ll be e-mailing a few professors about the matter.
While the sounds emitted by the hard disk this time around were a bit worse than last time (there are scratching sounds to account for), I don’t think they’ll actually need to replace the drive. I guess we’ll find out on Thursday. Wish me luck.
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