Hard Drive Meltdown
Right on the heels of my new gear, I began experiencing intermittent kernel panics, which led my operating system to stop booting. Pissed beyond all conceivable description, I headed to the Genius bar at my local Apple store to ask for an assist.
We scanned my hard drive, determined that it was okay, but realized that the boot failure was going to require a reinstall. Unfortunately, I hadn’t backed up my computer for about 9 days. So, I went home, rebooted from the DVD drive, and copied over the files that had changed using the Terminal and attempted an Archive & Backup install. Six hours later, after much churning and optimizing, the install DVD crashed, leaving me with a full hard drive and no working operating system. So, I plugged in my backup drive, rebooted, and grabbed that nine day old archive and do a Time Machine Restore.
The computer ran glacially slow. Firefox in any version would freeze the computer up. After all this, I made sure to back the computer up with Time Machine once I’d restored all the data. Yeah, I think I’d better blank the hard drive, start over, and manually restore my files.
Oh, I’m sorry. You wanted that hard drive? This volume has reported a fatal hardware error. Thus endeth the drive.
Thankfully, there’s an Apple reseller / repair shop around the corner from my office, where the guy installed a shiny new 320 GB hard drive in my computer for about $200. Now, I can get back to a new project which a friend and I are relaunching.
Oh, yeah, before I forget. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM. IF YOU DON’T, YOU’RE KIND OF DUMB.
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