Andre... It does sound like a head crash, which would have destroyed a chunk of your disk which you have to recover through heroic effort. If the noise was caused by something else, as it happened to me some time ago, I took the hard drive out of my cooked computer, put into a USB external housing, connected it to another computer and got my data back... Jim
on 1/16/07 2:52 AM, Jim Ault wrote: > Andre, > > Very, very sorry to hear about your dire circumstances. There are a few > times when having to reprogram an app or two can be a good thing, but not > the whole working environment. > > If you get back up and running, let me know. It is so easy for me to set up > an area on my web host for file storage for you (login and pswd protected). > There would be no cost and 5 or 6 g would be just fine. > > You should have said something to someone in the group, since many of us > have drive space available on the net somewhere. > > I don't know anything about drive recovery, but perhaps someone out here > does. Sometimes a college or university will have someone who can work > magic, especially with all the computer labs in the world these days. Even > better, they might try to do it for very low cost. > > Good luck and let me know. > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas > > > On 1/15/07 8:33 PM, "Andre Garzia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Friends, >> >> I was here coding some AJAX programs and developing libraries, my >> macbook just made a strange mechanical noise and then it was dead... >> when tried to boot, it made lots of mechanical noises and it never >> booted again. The noises are comming from the hard drive. I am >> assuming I lost everything. all my source code for the last year and >> everything I was working. I don't know what is broken... but I can't >> make it boot even from CDs... >> >> I don't know what I am to do now. I am writting from my old G4. I was >> doing some contract work and then it broke. The machine is now >> bricked. Can't boot from HD, Firewire, Network or CD, I've tried them >> all. The screen goes white, lot's of bad noises and the famous >> question mark of "no system folder". I can't even erase the PRAM... >> never chimes. >> >> sorry for this annoucement but it will be a while till I set >> everything up again. Tomorrow I'll go to apple repair service but >> they are making a fool of me for more than three months already. I >> was waiting for a replacement main board for this same machine. Now >> it appears, I'll need a new machine. >> >> My backup machine was broken some months ago, I had no money to buy >> the parts to build it up again. The G4 had no space for hosting the >> macbooks backup. I think I just lost all my revolution source code >> which was maybe 5 or 6 gb worth of code. >> >> andre >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution -- www.TalentSeeker.ca www.HiringSmart.ca/ns www.KeepingTheBest.ca/ns <http://www.OwnYourFuture-net.com> Own Your Future Consulting Services Limited, 23 Shoal Cove Road, Seabright, Nova Scotia, Canada. B3Z 3A9 Phone: 902-823-2339. Fax: 902-823-2139 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
