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[starfrosting]

Guys, I need help!

My computer won't turn on and everything from the past 4+ years is on there: papers, writings, poems, music, pictures-- everything.

I'm going to try to get the data transferred. Hopefully it's still there.

In the meantime, is there any way you guys can help me get my music collection back? (Some way to share en masse, or a download program that works with Mac?)

Thank you!

Comments

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

If it's not turning on at all, it's probably your power supply. Try putting in a new power supply. Everything should be fine.

For downloading on a Mac, I use Acquisition; it's great.

[cactus_rs]

I second the power supply idea. And from what I understand, Apple has pretty decent customer service and tech support, so if there's anything to be done, they'll probably try/be able to do it.

This is why I have an external HDD where I back up all of my shit once in a while. It's a good security blanket.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, I may just invest in an external hard drive this time. My old computer is at the shop, where they will hopefully be able to transfer the stuff on the hard drive to the new computer. I figuerd it was better to get a new computer rather than dump hundreds of bucks into trying to fix whatever was wrong with the old one (not the power supply, unfortunately).

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, Kerrick-- hopefully my old hard drive is intact so I won't have to scramble madly to get music, but I am excited to hear of something better than Limewire!

Nobody at Apple or Tekserve could get it to turn on either, so I wonder if it's a logic board thing (had to get that replaced last year, when it was still covered by AppleCare). When you say power supply, do you mean battery, or something else? At any rate, I decided rather than dumping lots of money into getting the old one fixed it would be better to get a new one and hope for the best as far as data transfer goes.

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

Electricity comes into your computer through the power cord into the power supply which routes it to the relevant components. If your power supply goes out—which is fairly common—then nothing in your computer can turn on because nothing can get power. At least that's how I understand it from my little nontechie mind. And I'm not sure how this would relate to a laptop—I know laptops have power supplies but I don't know whether it goes to the PS first, to the battery first, or to the PS then to the battery then to the PS again.

If by "not turning on" you mean that when you start it, no fans go, no lights come on, and the computer sits there pretending it's a very expensive brick, then the good news is that your primary problem is not with the hard drive. The bad news is that there could potentially be a secondary problem affecting your data, but you won't know until you try popping the hard drive into a different computer. Which is the easiest way to transfer data from a dead machine.

My advice is to get your new machine, keep the hard drive of the old one, take the hard drive in and ask them to test it. Once they've cleared it, hook it up to your new machine as a secondary drive and move everything over. Then you've still got the secondary drive as a backup.

[khelm1099.livejournal.com]

I hope everything works out with your computer. I recently bought an iBook, and although I like it more than a PC, I don't know how to do basic keyboard short cuts yet. As in, how does one do Ctrl+Alt+Delete?

In a completely unrelated note, I found this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JJ-tK7-gIk

It's David Sedaris. It's just him talking, and it's hilarious. I busted a gut. It's entitled, "Bend Over and Say, 'Ah'." Need I say more?

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I love when David Sedaris says, "You meet a guy, you give up a little control, and the next thing you know you're eating a different part of the pig"-- story of my life.

Darling, what do you need ctrl alt delete for?

Also, they got all the shit from my old computer onto the new one. Thank G-d.

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