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Post by emptyfox on Feb 3, 2012 16:33:44 GMT -8
Jesus Christ dude. That sounds AWFUL. Sounds to me like the hard drive is dead or dying. Had you done any updates at all right before this happened?
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Post by Rusty on Feb 3, 2012 16:37:30 GMT -8
I'm not a religious updater, but I do at least one a month, maybe more. The laptop is new, but is old. That sound weird, but when my old ass macbook died in November, I found a guy on Kijiji selling one he had one in a contest, which was a 2009 model, which is the last one before they went unibody aluminum. It was still in the plastic, and the guy was a 9th grade science teacher, so I don't think he was fucking with me.
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Post by emptyfox on Feb 3, 2012 16:40:22 GMT -8
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Post by Shaxspear III Esq. on Feb 3, 2012 16:45:50 GMT -8
Guess who's got an interview with Calgary metro EMS next week?
*insert excited kung fu punching here*
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Post by Rusty on Feb 3, 2012 16:53:54 GMT -8
I wish I would have seen that last night. However I did almost exactly what that said, with no results. Where I'm at now I guess is can I load my operating system from my External HD while its running the computer; or should I try and reload the OS from the disk. Regardless of your answer , thanks for the help.
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Post by J-Dawg on Feb 3, 2012 17:26:00 GMT -8
Guess who's got an interview with Calgary metro EMS next week? *insert excited kung fu punching here* Awesome! Good luck Shax.
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Post by emptyfox on Feb 3, 2012 17:59:27 GMT -8
I dunno man... that sounds like a job for the genius bar unfortunately.
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Post by Rusty on Feb 3, 2012 18:11:16 GMT -8
Thanks for your help. I knew it was probably fucked, I was just hoping that maybe it wasn't my harddrive. Luckily a new one of those isn't to expensive.
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Post by J-Dawg on Feb 3, 2012 18:35:08 GMT -8
Thanks for your help. I knew it was probably fucked, I was just hoping that maybe it wasn't my harddrive. Luckily a new one of those isn't to expensive. The hard drive in my imac died about a year and a half ago. I bought a new one at Memory Express for $80 and it's been fine since. I had good backups so nothing was lost. Apple laptops are kind of a bitch to open up and tinker with compared with the imacs though (I should know, I own one of those too), so you might want to pay someone else to replace the drive for you if that is in fact what's wrong. let's hope it's something else, preferably under warranty / applecare.
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Post by Rusty on Feb 3, 2012 18:46:13 GMT -8
Yeah I'm pretty certain it's the HD meow. I'll have to order one online. My dad is a biomedical engineer , which is a fancy ass way of saying I don't pay people to fix my shit, haha. If not for him I'd be even more broke.
You are right though, the only thing I've ever successfully tinkered with was my RAM. Any one with any experience will tell you literally anyone (i mean literally anyone ) could do that.
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Post by Fig on Feb 3, 2012 19:30:38 GMT -8
HDDs are easy as shit to replace for desktops but I don't fuck with opening up laptops as a rule of a thumb.
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Post by stamper on Feb 3, 2012 19:34:01 GMT -8
yowsa, I got to this a little late. Sorry. Yeah, that shit's all outta whack. I don't want to say the hard drive is complete toast by now, but based on what you're saying and how you trouble-shot it, it sounds like it is.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2012 16:04:45 GMT -8
Bahaha I love the new post position names! Grunting Yowie.. Brilliant
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Post by stamper on Feb 4, 2012 16:18:38 GMT -8
Thanx. It was something the mods had been kicking around for a couples months. We figured the boards needed a bit of a makeover.
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Post by Shaxspear III Esq. on Feb 4, 2012 21:27:19 GMT -8
HOLY SHIT! The stars have aligned. So I got an interview for Calgary Metro EMS next week......
I just got off the phone and got offered a full time position in Airdrie (only 15 minutes outside of Calgary) without an interview!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 3 years of working in the armpit of the world has finally paid off!!!(*#&%!)(#*%!)(%!)(%*!%)(#!&%(#*&%
Fuck I can't even get wasted tonight because I have to wake up at 5am to drive to the armpit of the world.
WHO CARES!!!! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Post by Drew on Feb 4, 2012 21:32:10 GMT -8
HOORAY FOR SHAX!
HOORAY FOR ALL!
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Post by romanticizer on Feb 4, 2012 21:37:41 GMT -8
Congrats, Shax!!!!
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Post by Fig on Feb 4, 2012 21:37:51 GMT -8
Fuck yeah that's awesome buddy! Congratulations!!!!
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Post by Rusty on Feb 4, 2012 21:40:48 GMT -8
Fuck yes! Awesome fucking news Shax, I'll have a drink in your honour.
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Post by romanticizer on Feb 4, 2012 22:42:50 GMT -8
i'm drunk.
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