[BIG POPPA]

I took my G4 12" powerbook to the Apple store and got this horrible news! The 40 GB hard drive is Toast! ALL MY MUSIC!!!! I'm a little heartbroken. Now where do I go get a new hard drive? Who has the best price?

Thanks,

 

[bhjazz]

Get that drive back from them before they throw it away!!!

First off, I'll bet you good bucks that not all of the music is gone. Get another drive for that machine and get yourself back up and running. In the mean time, head over to Computerstop and get a USB IDE adapter. This will allow you to run the toasted hard drive off the USB bus and as a slave (once the machine is running with the new drive). I've retrirved tons of good data off of drives that were suppsed to be dead with this simple purchase.

The part at Computerstop is ACUSB022, and was around $29 bucks when I bought one last year.

 

[BIG POPPA]

I have not had anything done yet. I priced a hard drive at the Mac Store 99 bucks and 90 bucks to install. I thought they were HIGH! I will get the USB IDE adapter though. The "Genius" told me if I look around I could find a hard drive for around 40 or 50 bucks. Was he HIGH? Keep looking out though.

 

[bhjazz]

Not high at all! Take a peek out at newegg.com. Many 40GB drives are priced pretty close to the $40 to $50 range. But since you're already in there, why not go for a 100GB drive. The price is still under your magic $100 buck mark (well, okay, not with the installation...) but will definitely let you store more tunes than before.

 

[Mr.Austin]

the hard drives used in macs are standard IDE drives, looking online currently I haven't seen anything under 72$ CND. I never could reload the OS on a mac for some reason or at least not the one I worked on.... guess I need more hands on with macs. Once you get the new HD up try putting the old one in a ziplock baggy in the freezer for a bit then try it again using a IDE to USB adapter you may be able to retrieve your data.

 

[wgr73]

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhjazz /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not high at all! Take a peek out at newegg.com. Many 40GB drives are priced pretty close to the $40 to $50 range. But since you're already in there, why not go for a 100GB drive. The price is still under your magic $100 buck mark (well, okay, not with the installation...) but will definitely let you store more tunes than before.

X2. Newegg

 

[BIG POPPA]

I drove all over Seattle today with a buddy and a phonebook. I found a cool deal in a shop in Ballard. And I will get it back in 48 hours at the latest. Thanks for the help. I will be buying a bigger hard drive just to have as a backup.

 

[Mr00000]

x3 Newegg

If Newegg was a woman I'd marry it. I've probably spent tens of thousands of dollars there throughout the years. I love them.

 

[skeeder]

x4 to newegg.

I've spent more there than here...shock I know...

but apple's hard drives are super simple...I wouldn't even worry about it.

 

[BIG POPPA]

I was told replacing mine was a pain in the @.$.$ by a few techs and the shop tried to squeeze an extra half hour of labor. I told them to forget it and give me my money back. They changed their mind. I would have replaced it myself if it was a dell or something. I have no problems fixing things!!! Sometimes it is easier to pay somebody!

 

[OakIris]

What, no backup??

Good luck, BIG POPPA. Hope you can recover your music.

Not to add salt to the wounds, but I highly recommend some sort of backup strategy in the future to make sure you never lose your music/data/etc. again with a hard drive crash. Having such insurance definitely lessens the pain of having to replace the drive.

Holly

 

[Dept_of_Alchemy]

 

[Aevum]

the thing is if the failiure is from the harddrive or the controller, if its from the controller, the harddrive is NOT detected or detected incorrectly, if its from the actuall drive, the drive is detected correctly but fails in read/write operations, if its a drive problem, i would put it in the freezer over night and have a usb connector ready to hook it up as soon as i get it out of the freezer, the cold tends to allow damaged drives some operation,

just remember to put it in a sealed bag with some paper towels, you dont want humidity building up,

 

[BIG POPPA]

I will do that. Thanks,