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And the result is that his powerbook won't load.
He was chatting with video on his powerbook using an imac isight, and subsequently dropped the isight to the left of the mousepad. the magnet in the isight dragged it over to the mousepad and it stuck there. My friend quickly took it off, but the damage was done. The music he was playing kept erratically playing and the screen froze, then turned black. He turned it off, but when he tries to load it up again, he gets no results. It stays at the gray screen with the apple logo, and the little circular spinning icon doesnt appear. He does hear an odd clicking sound coming from within the powerbook though. He's not sure how long he's had the pbook (1.67 ghz, 512 ram, osx 10.4.3, 1280 x 854 resolution), so he's not sure if he's still under default applecare. Any solutions? edit: he's had the pbook for a year and a half, so no default applecare. We're inside the apple store in glendale galleria awaiting the genius bar guys to call us. Last edited by Sargasm : 2005-12-09 at 21:59. |
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I believe that's where the hard drive is. In that case, the computer itself shouldn't be damaged; the hard drive is just missing random system files.
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You may be able to format the drive (which would mean no cost to your friend) however, he'll lose everything on the drive, which it sounds like he already has.
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ok, so the guy at the genius bar said that the hard drive was completely dead. Yesterday, he got a new hard drive that matched the apple genius' specifications and installed it himself. He's missing his retail version of tiger, so i brought over the ones that came with my powerbook.
So I turned it on, inserted the first disk, and restarted it while holding down C. The installation prompt came up, and it asked us to choose a language. However, after we clicked that, we got to the "install mac osx" window where an alert came up stating that the software cannot be installed on this computer. We opened up disk utility, and verified the new hard drive, which came up ok. The info on the new hard drive under disk utility is as follows: under erase: volume format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Name: untitled under partition: volume scheme: current format: mac os extended locked for editing: unchecked Raid: volume format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) raid type: mirrored raid set Raid set estimated size: 0bytes Anyone have advice? |
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The problem is here:
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ah, thanks for the info.
Unfortunately he lost his tiger discs. I guess we have to buy new ones...thanks for the help, guys. |
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So a magnet really killed his HD? That's freaky.
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Bummer about the HD demagnetisation/wipe.
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He bought the retail version of tiger back when it was first released. You should see the guy's house though, it's enormous. We went through all his discs, probably hundreds if not thousands of em. His mom recalled throwing out a lot of discs a while back, and that's probably where it went. She helped pay for it, though.
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