I wouldn't have any at all. I had a total meltdown of my digital life today.
I was backing up my system to my external drive today. Hadn't done so since installing Leopard last week. As SuperDuper! had has not put out a Leopard update, I went the old fashioned way and used Disk Utility. Disk utility erased by bootable backup drive and began to copy over my laptops hard drive. about an hour into the process, everything froze for over 25 min. I figured that I would just power down, restart and start over. When I restarted, I got the dreaded flashing folder with a "?". It seems that my hard drive decided to take a nose dive. And while it was at it, none of my user files had been copied over to the backup yet. The last few years of my digital life, up in "smoke". Luckily, I do have most, if not all of my music on my iPod. I think all of our pictures are on the wife's Macbook, I'll just have to re- enter the Keywords for over 10,000 photos. Sadly, all of my personal files are gone, as are my notes for an exam on thursday... I've tried hardware test, booting from the install disc, and DiskWarrior. Nothing will even recognize the drive as existing. Also, there was a clicking sound coming from the hard drive while it was trying to boot up. I have another (smaller) HD for my macbook, so I'm not completely without a computer, but man this sucks. The drive is still under warranty, so WD will replace it... Is it possible to salvage information off of a fail hard drive? Somewhere I can take it? I'd *really* like to be able to get my documents off this thing. Rick
