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Until now, I've been a relatively indefatigable lover of my Mac. It's nice-looking, sort of easy to use, has useful programs as long as you don't ever want to write a text document with any sort of formatting, relatively fast except when you're using esoteric programs like Firefox and iTunes, and has lasted me three years with no major problems, except for, uh, FOUR MAJOR HARD DRIVE FAILURES. This last one, which occurred an hour ago, like two of the others, lost a major paper that I was writing. In this case, it was my personal statement for my grad school applications, an essay that I had just completed a good draft of after three weeks of intermittent but intesive work. I had thought about emailing it to my parents, but in the event I'd thought, no, I'll polish it up a little more before I show it to them. GODDAMN. I just spent Rs. 8000 ($170) a month ago to solve the last one of these failures, and then realized soon after that for $400 more I could have just gotten a new PC notebook. No no no, I thought, I'm a Mac man. Well, you know what? Not any more. I've had it. This is bullshit. Now my options are to spend $80 on DiskWarrior, try to send it back to the shop that apparently did a not very good job of fixing it the last time, or write off my essay and all my MP3s and just toss this computer in the trash can, say thank you very much, Apple, and buy a new HP or Compaq. On the off chance that anyone understands these things, here are my symptoms: When I boot, I get the little folder with the Mac swirly blue thing in it, blinking with a question mark. Sometimes the question mark doesn't show up. If I run Apple's worthless Disk Utility thingy, then it says, "Invalid number of allocation blocks. The volume needs to be repaired." Needless to say, clicking "Repair Disk" accomplishes nothing at all. I get the same error, and it helpfully informs me that the underlying task reported failure on exit. Anyone know anything, or should I just drop my computer from the top of some Mughal monument? Is there a way you can plug it into a working Mac and try to suck some of the data out?
Update: Great, now it's the same as before and all I get is a blank gray screen with nothing on it. Same exact type of failure. I curse you, Triambika and your friendly salesman who didn't fix my computer like he said he would.
Update: Great, now it's the same as before and all I get is a blank gray screen with nothing on it. Same exact type of failure. I curse you, Triambika and your friendly salesman who didn't fix my computer like he said he would.