Hi... I don't know if this is the right part of the forum to post...
I recently had problems with my Macbook - It froze then did the blinking folder with question mark thing... I read up on it and spoke to my friend who used to work for an Apple Centre for help...:
I checked the Disk Utilities (? I think that's what it's called - I'm no good at computers...) and initially it could find the Hard Drive... and then he told me to eject the disc and then it started to work again...
I attempted to back up the most important things onto a flash drive (all I could find in my house!) and didn't have the space to back up photos and music and videos... Then it broke again... (for lack of better words...)
So today I bought a Seagate Freeagent 500MB from Officeworks for $179 (I think that is a good price and my friend said I can clone my hard drive using disk utilities. Problem is, now my Macbook can't locate the hard drive...
Is there a way I can back it up or have the hard drive show up? I read about putting the corrupted hard drive into a ziplock bag and putting it into the freezer for 24 hours to give me 20 min of working time to back things up... (http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html)
The thing that annoys me the most is I decided about 3 days ago to get my friend to back everything up - all I needed to do is get back home (I was on holiday) and buy an external hard drive... I hope it's not too late!!
HELP!!!
I recently had problems with my Macbook - It froze then did the blinking folder with question mark thing... I read up on it and spoke to my friend who used to work for an Apple Centre for help...:
I checked the Disk Utilities (? I think that's what it's called - I'm no good at computers...) and initially it could find the Hard Drive... and then he told me to eject the disc and then it started to work again...
I attempted to back up the most important things onto a flash drive (all I could find in my house!) and didn't have the space to back up photos and music and videos... Then it broke again... (for lack of better words...)
So today I bought a Seagate Freeagent 500MB from Officeworks for $179 (I think that is a good price and my friend said I can clone my hard drive using disk utilities. Problem is, now my Macbook can't locate the hard drive...
Is there a way I can back it up or have the hard drive show up? I read about putting the corrupted hard drive into a ziplock bag and putting it into the freezer for 24 hours to give me 20 min of working time to back things up... (http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html)
The thing that annoys me the most is I decided about 3 days ago to get my friend to back everything up - all I needed to do is get back home (I was on holiday) and buy an external hard drive... I hope it's not too late!!
HELP!!!