Crying for Anya because her MAC crashed and she lost 7,000 photos!!! Such a nightmare.
2 years ago.
6 comments so far
oh man that sux. Take it to a computer shop, you might be able to run a recovery and get the pictures back. Yea get an external hard-drive you can backup the photos to next time.
I think her Logicboard failed because she tried to backup to an external hard drive and it would keep freezing. Hopefully Apple can still extract the data.
photos probably haven't been lost then, they're still on the hard-drive. worst comes to worst, throw the hard-drive in another mac as a secondary disk and copy the files off.
take out the hard drive plug it into a windows machine and run spinrite it is the best recovery system I am willing to bet this will work http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm goog luck i'll check in to see if you need any help
Aww thanks guys. I heart the Jaiku community! So I did some research for my friend and apparently these logic board failures are fairly common with iBooks. You should check out what this crazy person did in order to fix the problem: http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/726/diy-obsolete-ibook-logic-board-repair I don't think I'm brave enough to re-solder her iBook with candles!
6 comments so far
oh man that sux. Take it to a computer shop, you might be able to run a recovery and get the pictures back. Yea get an external hard-drive you can backup the photos to next time.
2 years ago by alexkillby
I think her Logicboard failed because she tried to backup to an external hard drive and it would keep freezing. Hopefully Apple can still extract the data.
2 years ago by alexa
photos probably haven't been lost then, they're still on the hard-drive. worst comes to worst, throw the hard-drive in another mac as a secondary disk and copy the files off.
2 years ago by alexkillby
take out the hard drive plug it into a windows machine and run spinrite it is the best recovery system I am willing to bet this will work http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm goog luck i'll check in to see if you need any help
2 years ago by charholly9
Aww thanks guys. I heart the Jaiku community! So I did some research for my friend and apparently these logic board failures are fairly common with iBooks. You should check out what this crazy person did in order to fix the problem: http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/726/diy-obsolete-ibook-logic-board-repair I don't think I'm brave enough to re-solder her iBook with candles!
2 years ago by alexa
haha no i'm not that daring either, just let apple fix it - they've been awesome for customer support with me so far.
2 years ago by alexkillby