Well, hell -

[kyburg]

It wasn't my Sims game getting too large.

I've got a Mini with a hard drive crash. Good grief.

I've got an Applecare contract, and recent (fairly recent) backups - and an appointment for the Mac Store tomorrow night.

But...dayim. That ain't supposed to happen. No warning, neither. Just won't boot.

Crapcakes.

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[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

Well that sucks.

Hope all goes well at the Apple Store!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Hee. Could always go taste-testing stores. I've got this one, the one at the Promenade and the one in Pasadena within reasonably easy reach....

just out of curiousity....

[tomlemos.livejournal.com]

did you install an update from Apple before it crashed?

a friend of mine had her machine crash and burn after she installed the latest update.

took her a little bit of doing to get it running, but she did. strangest thing she ever saw. (she used to work at an Apple store).

Re: just out of curiousity....

[turandot.livejournal.com]

That happened to me on my ibook once. When we took it in at the Apple Store they were able to do a manual reboot using my startup disc. The Genius Bar guy told us that basically one of the packets in the latest update did not install properly, and the hard disk registered the missing piece and just stalled out (hence the reinstallation to finally get it to boot).

Re: just out of curiousity....

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

There *was* an update to pick up, but I didn't do it - hmm. Boy, I hope that's all this is - it's a relatively new machine, yadda ya and all that.

Cross fingers!

Re: just out of curiousity....

[tomlemos.livejournal.com]

that's pretty much what happened to my friend. exactly. we rebooted with a disc and it became happy.

I wish PC repairs were that easy. (I work on and own both types, but use the Mac for personal computing indeed. :)

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Eek, that's scary. I'm currently backing up my mac drive, because I've been hearing about macbook batteries exploding. Hope your mini's repaired quickly.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

One way or the other, it will be - I love the little thing!