My worst case scenerio happened last night when my beloved Macbook crashed and refused to reboot. I then spent the next four hours on my desktop PC searching through all of the Apple support documents to try and resolve the problem. I never knew there was so many combinations of keys you could press on a Mac to try and start it up: I tried Power + Option, Power + C, Power + Command + Option + Shift, Power + P + R, Power + F + U + C ... well you get the picture.
All to no avail. So I booked myself an appointment at the Genius Bar of my local Apple store for lunchtime today, where they confirmed that my hard drive has indeed gone to Macbook heaven. None of the data can be retrieved but luckily as it is still under warranty Apple will replace my hard drive and reinstall my default software without any charge.
The moral of the tale
Although the inconvenience of being without my Macbook for 7-10 days is annoying, knowing that I have backed up my data to an external hard drive makes the pain easier to bear. Admittedly the backup is from about a month ago, but as I’ve been on holiday and had various other things to keep me busy over that month I shouldn’t have lost too much data. Also as I used Carbon Copy Cloner to backup it should apparently be fairly straightforward to reinstall everything (although I’ve never done it before so only time will tell). All things considered my investment in an external hard drive plus the donation to the makers of Carbon Copy Cloner, which I will now most definately be making, have certainly been worth it. As a freelancer, when you think of all the client work that could potentially have been lost, it could have all been so much worse.
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