A couple days ago when I got home from work I sat down to work on some homework, check my e-mail, check facebook, all that good stuff. So my window was open to Safari and the spinning rainbow of doom showed up. I thought great, safari froze. I tried to click into finder since from there I can shut down frozen programs, unfortunately the cursor stayed the same and I couldn't click on anything. So I did the logical thing, I hit the power button and shut down my computer so I could reboot and clear out whatever was going on. Unfortunately that didn't work, when I pushed the button to turn it back on nothing came up but a gray screen. I sat and stared and waited and nothing, finally a little folder with a question mark on it started blinking. Being tired and frustrated by then I shut it back down and went to bed planning to mess with it in the morning.
After waking up I got on my i-Touch and looked to see if the apple website could help me fix it. It got me nowhere, so I looked at the Maclife website it said one thing. If you have a gray screen with a folder and a question mark your hard-drive has crashed. Bring it in to replace the hard-drive and see if we can retrieve any data
My heart settled into my stomach. The words didn't bode well. I took in my laptop that day, they confirmed that the hard-drive was fried to the point where it wasn't recognizable to the computer; however since it wasn't clicking they should be able to recover the data.
They lied.
So here I am out a little over 200 dollars to replace my hard-drive pay for labour and buy an external hard-drive to prevent the loss of everything I've collected, written, and photographed over the past 3 years.
Goodbye computer data. hopefully some of you I'll have spread over the web and be able to find again.
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