"Oops, it did it again"
Tags: Mac
Since my Hard disk crash I'm using SuperDuper! for creating incremental backups of my MacBook (thank's again Bill, this tip was really great!). Every Tuesday my calender reminds for that. An incremental backup only takes about 15 to 20 minutes and you can run it while every other application is running.
I did the last incremental backup yesterday morning. And yesterday evening I had a presentation where I used a beamer. After some trouble finding a working resolution and playing a bit around, I decided to restart the system. But after the shutdown, the only thing I saw was the Apple logo and the animated circle. A minute later the MacBook switched off.
I tried a lot things like Command, Control and Power or Command, Alt, R and P, I removed the battery and so on but nothing worked. The MacBook didn't start. But hey, I've got a backup. Just plug in the USB drive, hold down Alt or C while starting, choose the start volume and there you go. The disk tool reported an unreparable error.
After deleting the partition I copied my backup back to the local hard disk and an hour later everything was up and running again.
As good as those easy to restore features are, this is the 4th failure I've got within less than a year (cover, battery, hard disk crash and now this failure) and I'm asking myself if this is normal? What are your experiences with your Apple hardware? Or is it a user related problem?
Since my Hard disk crash I'm using SuperDuper! for creating incremental backups of my MacBook (thank's again Bill, this tip was really great!). Every Tuesday my calender reminds for that. An incremental backup only takes about 15 to 20 minutes and you can run it while every other application is running.
I did the last incremental backup yesterday morning. And yesterday evening I had a presentation where I used a beamer. After some trouble finding a working resolution and playing a bit around, I decided to restart the system. But after the shutdown, the only thing I saw was the Apple logo and the animated circle. A minute later the MacBook switched off.
I tried a lot things like Command, Control and Power or Command, Alt, R and P, I removed the battery and so on but nothing worked. The MacBook didn't start. But hey, I've got a backup. Just plug in the USB drive, hold down Alt or C while starting, choose the start volume and there you go. The disk tool reported an unreparable error.
After deleting the partition I copied my backup back to the local hard disk and an hour later everything was up and running again.
As good as those easy to restore features are, this is the 4th failure I've got within less than a year (cover, battery, hard disk crash and now this failure) and I'm asking myself if this is normal? What are your experiences with your Apple hardware? Or is it a user related problem?
Comments
I presume you didn't dance around your laptop at full moon and chanted the Steve-is-great praise and worship together with 7 drunken virgins?
Such carelessness in the apple religion gets punished as you see.
Of course...
Growing production volumes, made in China as the rest, pressure on the margins. Eventually the user at fault was the QA manager?
Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 19:19:31 On 13.08.2008 | - Website - |