RIP Macbook

by Dave Z on Feb.01, 2009, under Blog

I woke up this morning to find both my iPhone and Macbook crapped out. I was able to get the iPhone working again by forcing a hard reset but the same can’t be said for the Macbook. When I’d restart it, the thing would just get stuck on the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning thing. If left on, it’d just stay there and occasionally restart itself and just get stuck again. I tried to boot to safemode and even tried the OSX DVD but that also proved fruitless. The disk utility wasn’t able to repair and all signs point to the hard drive being toast. Luckily, an old #vidgames IRC friend is in data recovery and he said he can hook me up if need be. But for now, the Macbook is dead and a lot of my irreplacable private and homemade pr0n is lost. What pisses me off is that there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to back up my iPhone now because if I sync with my Vaio it’ll erase all the songs, pictures and videos on it that weren’t purchased from iTunes.