It’s a sad day as the hard drive in my Macbook has died. Replacing the hard drive is not a problem and in fact could be a good thing as I could use more space. The bad part of this all is that I only recently upgraded to Leopard and have not yet implemented time machine. I will be investigating data recovery services in hopes that I can save some of the hard drives contents, especially family photos.
I am usually good about backups and will admit that I was complacent in this case. After the hard drive is replaced I will be getting an external hard drive and setting up time machine.
For anyone reading this I would urge you to backup your data regularly, seriously don’t wait do it now!
If anyone out there can recommend a reputable and fair data recovery service let me know. One I looked at has a flat rate of $279 for a single hard drive.
Next up is snow leopard with a release date of September and while it doesn’t snow here in September (a very bad snow leopard joke) I do plan on being an early adopter this time around.
That really stinks. I am so sorry.
Thanks, I just hope I can save the photos.