Why did I ever buy a computer?
Tomoe is gone, so there is no shoulder to cry on (which is why I am crying here). I am sitting here alone fighting with my iBook wondering why I ever bought it. The dang thing just stopped today, no warning, no signs... just stopped and won`t reboot. I have searched all over the web and the only person who seems to have a similar situation was not able to fix it after tring Disk Utility (which just hangs) Disk Warrior (or something like that which is supposed to be the best recovery option). I can`t get into single user mode for some reason. I just hope I can get the things that I dont have backed up (such as my latest norway photos which I had not put on CD yet) off with the Target disk mode.
I'm really not looking forward to reinstalling and getting everything set up just how I like it all over again.... dang! dang! dang!.... dang!
And then there's that paper I was working on for my thesis today... only a couple hours work, but still....
Oh yeah, I noticed my bike has a flat today too. What a crappy day.
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Here in london it just froze, rained, and finally snowed a nominal amount. Just enough for you to freeze your ass off and have to de-ice the windscreen if driving.
We went around the British museum today, missed the rain and had lunch in covent garden.
We're in Tokyo in 3 weeks and saving supposedly. I've never had to hit savings so hard before. The years cost more but pay remains constant.
Random tidings...;)
Posted by: Jim | February 27, 2005 11:32 AM
So, after many hours and many tries, I have been able to connect via firewire using a friends iBook and target mode. The only problem now is that sometimes it hangs in finder as it is fighting with my mangled hard drive. There are only a few files in Users directory which I really want to get, and when trying to go into that directory, sometimes I can get deeper than other times, and sometimes it frezzes the finder. Why can't this just be easy? Why don't I back up my data daily? Hope this doesn't take all night...
I have DiskWarrior downloaded and waiting on standby in the event that I am unable to at least back-up some of my data, I will have to just hope that Disk Warrior is as good as they say and it can rescue whatever is left.
Posted by: kevin | February 28, 2005 02:29 AM
Isn't there some unix command that can do daily back-ups from your notebook to your server and vice versa?
Posted by: mark | February 28, 2005 08:08 AM
Yeah, but the stuff that I wanted to get off is the stuff that was too big that I don't want to keep backing up to the server (gigabytes of photos)
But I suppose in the end I should worry less about filling up the server and more about loosing the data.
Posted by: kevin | February 28, 2005 09:06 AM