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Jan 03 '09 by roadkill3d
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RIP My Bonnie...

CRASH

My partner in crime decided to die today. I got to hang out with my buddies again last night (after months of busy-ness) and decided to shut down my beloved, return drunk last night, and now she decides to give up on me. What a perfect way to start the year. *tears*

:'(

It would only load to the Apple logo. It won't even boot to Safe Mode. I've tried taking out third-party memory, repairing it in Disk Utility, running fsck at single user mode etc etc... still sadness

I've read on the forums that VOLUME CHECK FAILED is a problem with the HD. Did I miss on anything before I reinstall and start on a clean slate? It's against my will since I have unbacked-up works last night but I still have tons that I have to start on and the most unfortunate option is the most inevitable one.

ir0cko on Jan 03 '09 at 10:50pm

aw man... :\

roadkill3d on Jan 03 '09 at 10:53pm

It's a sad day... :(

HAHA.sg on Jan 04 '09 at 12:20am

awww man...take it ez...be strong!

HAHA always!(:

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 12:22am

I couldn't possibly HAHA right now Anwar...

littlem on Jan 04 '09 at 12:26am

awwww

*hugzzzzzz

Malcolm Man on Jan 04 '09 at 12:30am

At first I thought you lost your girlfriend.

Then I realized that it's much worse...

*man hug*

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 12:33am

Worse indeed Malcolm.

It's slowly dawning on me the settings, updates, downloads, bookmarks etc. that I have to redo all over again. *loses mind*

HAHA.sg on Jan 04 '09 at 12:47am

sorry to hear that man...*MAN HUG*

FRICKINAWESOME on Jan 04 '09 at 1:01am

I'm so confused what everyone does to their computers that destroys them so hardcore? Is it all the intense art programs running on it at all times, cause i've never had a computer just completely give up on me yet.

Until of course now since i typed it. But it doesn't count unless you say it out loud right?

Anywho, so sorry man and i hope you reincarnated the computer in your new one with back-up files.

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 1:27am

I thought so too Evan. I mean I've been very careful with updates etc. and it hasn't behaved badly ever... then it just suddenly won't boot up anymore. It's a complete mystery.

I miss my bookmarks and other stuff.

FRICKINAWESOME on Jan 04 '09 at 1:29am

kaloyster on Jan 04 '09 at 1:30am

aw hell naw!

baka madiskartehan ko pa, kniel.

Robsoul on Jan 04 '09 at 1:30am

dude, this shit happened to my wifes macbook about a month ago

basically it sounds like you hard drive is failing. is that a macbook? has your fully charged battery been losing juice in about 15min? how old is the computer?

but maybe I'm wrong, maybe you simply need to reinstall the OS. something I couldn't even do on hers.

kaloyster on Jan 04 '09 at 1:34am

w. w.. w.. wait..

hindi mo ba shina-shutdown yan? imac yan tama ba?

Robsoul on Jan 04 '09 at 1:39am

oh yeah, I had to buy a new HD and install that, basically upgraded froman 80 GB HD to a 160 HD on her 'ol macbook.

Luckily I was able to save all her music and files before it finally went "bye bye"

Robsoul on Jan 04 '09 at 1:39am

cost me $80 for the HD but you can probably find a cheaper one.

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 1:40am

Rob it's a year old and it's an imac.

Kaloy, oo chong... tanginang buhay to. Madalas naman siya nakaon dati wala namang problema. Dati kahit overnight okay lang din.

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 1:47am

And I'm very skeptic about the HD failing since I remember the last software that I ever put on before shutting down was xiv's System cooling fan software (or something like that). It either messed up the OS really bad since nothing of the steps I did seemed to be working, even booting up on Safefuckingmode.

kaloyster on Jan 04 '09 at 1:59am

under warranty ba chong? dalin mo sa ynzal pare.

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 2:01am

90 dayslang warranty e di ba?

kaloyster on Jan 04 '09 at 2:07am

pwede mo bilhan ng applecare pare. yung sa kin expire na sa jan29 pero purchase ako good for 3 years libre repairs and replacements.

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 2:09am

San ka bumibili? Online?

kaloyster on Jan 04 '09 at 2:12am

yep. ebay. nakamura pa ko kasi serial number lang naman ang kailangan so no need to ship the box :)

a disclaimer though, you can extend the warranty KUNG hindi pa tapos ang 90 day warranty ng item mo. pag nag purchase ka at lagpas na ang 90 days, olats na.

although ynzal can and will repair your bonnie regardless of its warranty ended up already.

Robsoul on Jan 04 '09 at 3:20pm

generally the HD is failing any time a volume doesn't mount, although that is not always the case. years ago, I had a G3 tower and that died after 6 months, thus, from that point on I always purchased apple care.

my new imac is on the latest os and a new update is giving a lot of ppl the blue screen of death. I think I repaired it though per an article I read *knock on wood*, hold down the shift button on a restart and it renews the system cache or something along those lines.

Robsoul on Jan 04 '09 at 3:21pm

anyway, sounds like kaloysters got your back

ivejustquitsmoking on Jan 04 '09 at 3:36pm

wtf... :\

Krakaboom on Jan 04 '09 at 4:22pm

Sorry to hear about that, Kneil.

PS After reading this I went and did a backup of my laptop.

spacesick 2 on Jan 04 '09 at 4:23pm

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

roadkill3d on Jan 04 '09 at 6:14pm

Thanks for that Rob... I'm slowly learning how to do these things -maintenance and stuff and doing occasional system checks.

I never understood how important Time Machine is up until now. I have always formatted my external HD to FAT since I also have a Windows system where I use sometimes to import files from PC and ignored Time Machine. I have at least 7 unbacked-up illustrations :(

ilovedoodle on Jan 04 '09 at 6:21pm

oh no!!!! thats remind me the sudden death of macbook HD last year. luckily the HD still under warranty, but i lost everything inside!!

That's really HURT!!!

chelly on Jan 04 '09 at 6:36pm

oh no, i hope you have mac support. i never use the time machine, but then again nothing too valuable is on my laptop. hope it all works out for the best and fast!

ivejustquitsmoking on Jan 04 '09 at 6:42pm

bummer

syet wala ako apple care

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