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<blockquote data-quote="eric" data-source="post: 786835" data-attributes="member: 22327"><p>ideally, when you had any idea it was a hard drive, you should have done it yourself.</p><p></p><p>since that's in the past now, i would demand they put everything back the way it was and refund your money. you may want to suggest you'll be calling the better business bureau as well. make sure you talk to a manager.</p><p></p><p>if somehow that does work for you, which i think is a slim chance if any, you'll still need to get your data back. a tthe very least you're going to need a new hard drive, which is very easy to install. your recovery media that came with your macbook to reload the OS.</p><p>now, the other thing to keep in mind is that the drive has failed. if you have access to an external enclosure, you can try swapping your bad drive in to see if it works at all. sometimes letting the drive sit in a freezer for a while before mounting it can help here depending on the failure.</p><p>if nothing you do works, there are data recovery services, but i'm thinking they are going to be far out of your price range.</p><p></p><p>if you take nothing else from this, learn to keep backups of anything even remotely important.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eric, post: 786835, member: 22327"] ideally, when you had any idea it was a hard drive, you should have done it yourself. since that's in the past now, i would demand they put everything back the way it was and refund your money. you may want to suggest you'll be calling the better business bureau as well. make sure you talk to a manager. if somehow that does work for you, which i think is a slim chance if any, you'll still need to get your data back. a tthe very least you're going to need a new hard drive, which is very easy to install. your recovery media that came with your macbook to reload the OS. now, the other thing to keep in mind is that the drive has failed. if you have access to an external enclosure, you can try swapping your bad drive in to see if it works at all. sometimes letting the drive sit in a freezer for a while before mounting it can help here depending on the failure. if nothing you do works, there are data recovery services, but i'm thinking they are going to be far out of your price range. if you take nothing else from this, learn to keep backups of anything even remotely important. [/QUOTE]
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