Dad always offered his professional service as a pharmacist of “taking care” of pets that had outlived their welcome here on earth. Oscar was Christine Jeep’s daschund, affectionately called the dawg with amnesia, who would forget who its friends were. It would just bite you seconds after loving you.
Dad left some clothes with some friends, but took important keys.
My battery had not been fully recharging for a while. For weeks, it would “max out” at a lower percentage, lowering incrementally pretty much weekly. No, I am not eligible for the recall.
One fitful night, I came home to a shut down computer. When it powered on, I heard a very loud hard drive and saw a prohibitive sign, the “no smoking sign” as I called it. After several such attempts, I went for the included in purchase CDs, which I hadn’t seen since I bought it/
I can start from the restore CD and have faced some varying results.
Most of the time, I can’t see the hard drive as an option to install Mac Os X 10.3 ish. Once, I was able to see and select the hard drive. All got stuck after it told me that I would have to change installation options since I had a newer version of Mac Os X. (I read in maxoshints that someone uses his freezer and toaster to manipulate temperatures in order to rescue data from Mac hard drives.)
Both Startup Disk and Disk Utility saw the hard drive that one time since the fitful night.
An Apple store “Genius” had agreed with me that the hard drive was busted, but now I can see 74.5 GB TOSHIBA MK8025GAS in the list on the left. It does not show any volumes under it, like the 3.9 GB CD does (iBook Software). I can “info” and see that it even has a device tree.
I cannot drag and drop to Restore. RAID and Partition do not seem to apply.
Erase seems my best option and it seems to have been able to “write zeros” but not “8 track randomize.”
…I am now trying to “partition” and I can see the progress bar waving, not progressing. Clicking on other tabs makes them flash, but not dominate the window. I am able to use the menu bar and quit, which prompts me that I am interrupting. The screen fades and the computer stops making noise after a long time, but still no progress.
Please advise. What should I do? What can I do? I have begun trying to learn about hard drives, but find the technology convoluted. I can’t sort out my choices…. for example, when I try and look up my specs, I can’t find an A1054 on apple’s website. There’s a M9623LL/A .
I’m typing this on a M9846LL/A, which is actually an A1133?!!?
The A1054 is a refurb, but the A1133 is not.
Bonus points for helping me understand, progress toward goal of working computer!
I played some hockey, worked at Starbucks, and played soccer… none of which are chiropractic approved. I’m on 600mg of Ibuprofen every 20 minutes. My bed reminds me of …insert frigid honeymoon or Clinton joke here… due to all the ice on which I lay. I did earn MVP of the game playing soccer. I scored while pulling a man’s pants down (Brad?) AFTER I was forcefully checked into the boards causing a stoppage in play, no penalty and thusly, perhaps the ref’s job.
Starbucks declares that it is now Christmas as I spent many hours toiling to prepare red Christmas cheer last night. yeah, that’s right. I said “Christmas.” …Walmart said I could.
My back hurts.
Computers confuse me.
Industrial boilers have pre-purge fans. From this day forward, unless convinced otherwise, to prime the airflow of a chimney, I will use a hairdrier
John Gerwitz, viewing a picture of his baby sister, says, “how can a baby be so cute and smell so bad?”
Dad was in his late 50s or early 60s when he said that.