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2011 15" MBP won't boot
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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee365" data-source="post: 1248806" data-attributes="member: 193330"><p>After a 2 hour drive we dropped our MBP off at the genius bar. A bit later he came back out to the floor and said that the HD has failed and requires replacement. He wasn't sure if it was a physical failure or just corrupted. He said he didn't hear any clicking or other signs showing physical failure. </p><p></p><p>He said that he has no way of recovering any data there and that the drive would need to be sent off to a lab for any recovery. We've pretty much just lost a couple hundred pictures that weren't backed up since our external drive failed several months ago. I thought we had more time to come up with a new backup drive, apparently not. It sucks that the pictures are gone but I'm wandering if it's worth trying to recover some data myself.</p><p></p><p>There are some programs that run at the DOS level and can sometimes recover corrupted drives. You can't even hold down "C" on the MBP to access the setup disk so I'm wandering if the failure is beyond just corruption. I could get a cable to fit the drive as an external drive for like $12 and run that program to try and recover some pictures. Being that the box is on the way to send the MBP back to Apple for the HDD replacement (The genius's at the Genius Bar didn't have the correct HDD and sent me packing 2 hours back home!) so if I decided to do that I would have to hold off on sending the MBP back to Apple. If it's doubtful that I can recover anything, or a physical failure is suspected, then we'll just cut our loses and send it back to Apple and start all over agian.</p><p></p><p>We've had two HDD's fail in a matter of months so dropping a couple hundred bucks on a backup drive is now a huge priority so this doesn't happen again... My wife is an aspiring pro photographer so a Drobo is raid array is going to be the way to go to protect projects but for now anything is better than nothing. I'm looking at either a 1TB Time Capsule or different external HDD that maybe my PC can back up on as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banshee365, post: 1248806, member: 193330"] After a 2 hour drive we dropped our MBP off at the genius bar. A bit later he came back out to the floor and said that the HD has failed and requires replacement. He wasn't sure if it was a physical failure or just corrupted. He said he didn't hear any clicking or other signs showing physical failure. He said that he has no way of recovering any data there and that the drive would need to be sent off to a lab for any recovery. We've pretty much just lost a couple hundred pictures that weren't backed up since our external drive failed several months ago. I thought we had more time to come up with a new backup drive, apparently not. It sucks that the pictures are gone but I'm wandering if it's worth trying to recover some data myself. There are some programs that run at the DOS level and can sometimes recover corrupted drives. You can't even hold down "C" on the MBP to access the setup disk so I'm wandering if the failure is beyond just corruption. I could get a cable to fit the drive as an external drive for like $12 and run that program to try and recover some pictures. Being that the box is on the way to send the MBP back to Apple for the HDD replacement (The genius's at the Genius Bar didn't have the correct HDD and sent me packing 2 hours back home!) so if I decided to do that I would have to hold off on sending the MBP back to Apple. If it's doubtful that I can recover anything, or a physical failure is suspected, then we'll just cut our loses and send it back to Apple and start all over agian. We've had two HDD's fail in a matter of months so dropping a couple hundred bucks on a backup drive is now a huge priority so this doesn't happen again... My wife is an aspiring pro photographer so a Drobo is raid array is going to be the way to go to protect projects but for now anything is better than nothing. I'm looking at either a 1TB Time Capsule or different external HDD that maybe my PC can back up on as well. [/QUOTE]
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