At the Apple store
Thursday, January 24th, 2008I tried running Disk Utility yesterday, but after more than a day, it seemed to have made no progress. At the Apple store, Markus tried booting from an external Firewire drive (among other tricks), and my hard drive no longer even appears. It is quite dead.
So now they’re installing a fresh hard drive for me, under warrantee, in a “0 to 60″ (Apple-ese for “we fix your computer in an hour”).
Lessons learned: I probably need a better backup solution, but “check stuff in every day” is a pretty good one. (Yeah, I know about branches. Branching and merging in SVN is too painful for me to do unless I really need it.) Expect even more checkins now that I’m super paranoid!
