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Broken Superdrive, rEFIt not working, external superdrive?
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<blockquote data-quote="SapAuthor" data-source="post: 1057615" data-attributes="member: 45836"><p>Well, i got the disk out of the drive using double sided foam tape, some thin hard board, and a little force. Now the drive is completely dead (but was dead before, at least now it doesn't make those horrid noises when the computer starts up).</p><p></p><p>As for how to remove it, tried everything, shaking method, force eject, when i got the disk out, there were tons of metal scratch marks in it, so when the laptop fell, something broke and the drive was not recoverable.</p><p></p><p>I tried target disk mode with a buddy's macbook, no dice as well. </p><p></p><p>I'm heading to a store that has a firewire DVD drive that i'm going to use to install...this has been a huge pain in the butt. I just hope i don't run into more problems with this, i'm soooo going to back up using winclone and make sure this never, ever happens again >.></p><p></p><p>Thanks for the help. Is there anythign i need to know when running the install from an external firewire? Just do an alt boot as normal and such?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SapAuthor, post: 1057615, member: 45836"] Well, i got the disk out of the drive using double sided foam tape, some thin hard board, and a little force. Now the drive is completely dead (but was dead before, at least now it doesn't make those horrid noises when the computer starts up). As for how to remove it, tried everything, shaking method, force eject, when i got the disk out, there were tons of metal scratch marks in it, so when the laptop fell, something broke and the drive was not recoverable. I tried target disk mode with a buddy's macbook, no dice as well. I'm heading to a store that has a firewire DVD drive that i'm going to use to install...this has been a huge pain in the butt. I just hope i don't run into more problems with this, i'm soooo going to back up using winclone and make sure this never, ever happens again >.> Thanks for the help. Is there anythign i need to know when running the install from an external firewire? Just do an alt boot as normal and such? [/QUOTE]
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