A fun day!

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One day, 2 full installs of OSX.

I woke up, it was a wonderful day to be a Mac user (inst every day?), I ate breakfast, watched a movie, took a shower, and sat down with my PowerBook for an hour. I decided it was time to reboot, well i did, then a friend sent me a zip file, so i tried to open it and for some odd reason (in which i later found out it was corrupt), it wouldnt open. So i rebooted the machine to try to see if that would help, well, it didnt. I then proceeded to reboot one more time to make sure that i would kill the unarching process. When i did this time, for some reason my Mac, for the first time ever, slowed at login.

I became afraid, what was going on?! I did a force shutdown then reboot, this time, it was bad. I couldnt get past the grey start up screen that all Mac users are familiar with. I let it sit for a half hour, longer, still nothing. Something was wrong, very wrong. I force rebooted again, and again, still nothing. My heart pounding i posted on Mac Addict and the Apple Disscussion boards - this didnt look good.

I decided to then call Apple Care - I was putting this off mainly in fear for my baby. The news was grim, some how, the structure of the HDD was dammaged beyond repair from the current install of the OS. The Apple Care rep asked me if i was prepared to erase my HDD, of corse, i knew i had no other option, i confirmed what i had to do.

I then proceeded to install OSX as usual. All of a sudden i realized that it kept freezing at 82% on Phase 2 of the first disk. I restarted it about 3 or 4 times and then cleaned the disk and decided - hey lets partition the drive as well. I did this and then installed OSX smoothly, sweet, i was back.

While starting to restore all of my programs, i realized something interesting. That something was the fact that i only had 5 gigs left - I had installed to the wrong partition.

So I am back from the begining again. I have to re-partition, fix the disk permissions, and this time - intall to the right partition.

Thank God this wasnt one of my Windoze stories, or it would be a LOT longer.

So anyone wanna share some fun days like mine?

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Well every part of my PC lovin’ arse want’s to make fun of you for owning a mac and having to do this but in all honesty, I cant.

I have to had to install an OS more than once in a single day on many a PC so I can’t really point fingers :slight_smile: I am glad you got it all worked out ther dipi. Nothing worse than losing everything though :frowning: I feel for ya. Mac user or not :wink:

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Same :-/

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The HDD is pretty much hosed i have to say.

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@53.k6L5acbhtFd.11@.6898ed78/4

Gah this sucks.

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Heh, I’ve had tons of those days being the “can-you-come-over-and-fix-our-computer”-guy, and never brave enough to say no. Happened just a month ago I think.

My parents bought a new computer, so I got the one they used before. Since it was surely better than my old Celeron 500, I gratiously accepted the offer. [size=1](is gratiously the correct word ?) [size=2]Since my parents didn’t bother to buy a new monitor because they still had their 15" LCD, I was still stuck with my old 15" CRT. Ok, no big deal, until this happened:

Shortly after I got the computer, I was getting it ready to be used. So a lot of logging in and logging out for all the software to get ready and all. I was having trouble with a certain program and decided to test it on a different account than the administrator. So I do a quick user change, and kabam. Monitor goes black. Appearantly it couldn’t take the quick user change, for some weird reason. Since I couldn’t see anything, I did a cold reboot.

Computer boots. I get a wave of fear when I see a boot-BSOD ! Knowing that those are too dangerous, I quickly reset without even having read it, hoping that it will fix itself. But it didn’t, it kept coming up. So, I decide to read it and see what’s wrong. Couldn’t make up much of the cryptic error message, but I looked up the error code on the internet and found out that my hard-disk has been damaged somewhere.

After hours and hours of searching the net and looking at the error message over and over again, I found out that my Master Boot Record was damaged. There was no way I could fix it from this computer, so I pretty much had to take it out, and plug it into another computer and try to fix it there.

So I took it out, and installed it in my brother’s computer. The drive was recognised without any problems. I didn’t want to browse through it because I was afraid of damaging it even more.

So I figured I had to go look on the net for a disk diagnosis tool, and I found one. It managed to read my entire disk, so I was pretty relieved that my data was still intact. I knew the MBR was damaged, but it could have been worse too. I quickly pulled the most data from the disk and put it on my brother’s computer HD.

Then, after the diagnosis tool was unable to fix it, I started reading up on the MBR. I noticed that you could somehow rewrite the MBR. Since it was kaput anyway, I thought why not give it a shot, and rewrote the MBR via my brother’s computer. I did, and plugged it back into mine, and hurray ! It’s alive again !

First thing I did was disable quick user switching. I’m still afraid of it now.

Just one of the many situations I’ve had to deal with :slight_smile:
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You ppl make me have nightmares :bad: :stuck_out_tongue:

Almost a year ago ( don’t remember exactly ) I noticed that my hd randomly restarted itself. I was doing normal stuff when I heard the hd-restarting sound from the case and in a result the whole thing crashed to one of the the blue screens
either this: http://www.hot.ee/syko2/error1.JPG
or this: http://www.hot.ee/syko2/error2.JPG
Sometimes if I didn’t do anything for a minute it didn’t but hey… that sux.

I couldn’t act immediately and try to fix it or whatever bcuz it was like doing it for many times repeatetly (nothing helped… restart… you name it) and then worked fine for a few weeks… and then it started again and i noticed that it was getting worse each time until only a few months ago I got a blue screen error saying something about the boot secotr being corrupted or whatever and it just wouldn’t go away… no matter what I did.

Whenever I started up my computer, half way through the starting process I hear the sound again and then the blue screen… I couldn’t even get into windows.
I was in fear of losing all my life’s work on my hd…

I was thinking of calling the uber-hardware-geek in our town but I really… realllyyy dislike that guy. So the eroor was saying something about an unmountable boot sector… ok I was thinking maybe my boot sector on the hd is just screwed… the data could very well still be there.

So I took it to a friend of mine, connected it to his pc and it worked fine (bcuz we were booting from another hd). And i was right… the boot sector was screwed up
So my friend gave me his old 4gb hd, I installed win on that one and booted from there and everything worked.

And to this very day I’m surviving on his 4gb hard drive that makes a lotta noise. (My broken hd is 120gb, I can access it through the 4gb one so I have 124gb actually)
I’m still waiting for my new computer to arrive, then I’m gonna hand this one over to my brother and he will deal with it :stuck_out_tongue: the hd is under warranty.
My new pc should’ve arrived weeks ago… now I’m ordering it from another place

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ARG…Crazy…!!

Once i had a PC,
a 500 Mhrz lil’ boy… Awesome Rock solid. Never had a problem with it. So I truned on some downloads Like I do loads of times before. And went to sleep.

woke up the next day looked over at my pc and saw a black screen. I though “No bigigie” Pressed the on button. PC wouldn’t start :frowning:

I didn’t know what happende I had done it so manny times just let it on for a few days and come back with not even a glitch. Well opend her up took a look inside the Motherboard was fried! duh Took out the harddrive. Put it in a other pc and the download was done! :slight_smile:

Sadly I had no money for a new pc at the time. So it was 3 months without a pc. :frowning:

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holy cow… your motherboard got fried while you were sleeping… =| and I’ll say it again: You ppl are gonna get me nightmares

That reminds me of when one of my friends was just sitting… doing stuff on his comp and he suddenly smelled something burning and then he looked under the table and there was black smoke coming from his pc case! :stuck_out_tongue:
Then he just shut his pc down… checked it out… nothing… put it back together, start it up and it worked fine… go figure :beer:

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Lol, maybe some mouse burned up :stuck_out_tongue:

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On one of my older Dells, I thought the HD started sounding like a jet engine taking off, so I spent a few hours formatting and reinstalling only to later find out that a piece of string was stuck to my fan. Oh well. I’m not sure what I was thinking to rationalize that formatting my PC would fix the HD noise. I was such a zergling back then…(2 months ago actually!).

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Ooh starcraft :smiley:

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Kirupa - any reason to format eh? I am the same way, there’s nothing like a fresh new install to currpt :evil:

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I am sorry to annouce the passing of my PowerBook. At approximently 12:30-1:00 my PowerBook was taken off life support, and laid to rest.

I felt compelled to report the news. Donations are appreicated, PM me for a place to send flowers. :trout: