This, is this, here and now, THE END FOR MY MACBOOK?
Hello people. Now, I have just experianced extreme disappointment so I am in a bad mood so dont expect me to be kind here.
I have reported my MacBooks hard drive buzzing noises before and have done nothing about it, even when people were constantly telling me to back up, but I guess the more impatient side got the better of me there, and I never did it. But tonight, me doing my thing on YouTube and Facebook, reading e-mails in Microsoft Entourage, and BUZZ..... 'Oh, just ignore it, it recovers' BUZZ, Click click click BUZZ click click.. Volume of it goes up by at least 50%. BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ. Review of Sonic Jam on YouTube freeses. Everybody in my living room are annoyed at this point by the buzzing noise its so loud. Clock freezes, quickly followed by the Beach Ball. I paniced thinking 'CRAP, ITS DEAD! I DIDN'T BACKUP! CRAAAPPPPP!' and I shut it. I did try opening it again, and it did come back on and stop buzzing, but its still frozen.
I have grabbed a 500GB external hard drive and power cable, and am finally ready to back this bloody thing up. I'm just too scared to turn it off. If it cant read the boot loader I get the dreaded Question Mark and Folder of doom. Then I need my install disc, to use Disk Utility..... which is never helpful.
Somebody, please, tell me, I am now willing to try anything now... Somebody help me and my only Mac.
Not sure what the question is...
If you are wanting suggestions on backing up then download SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Clone (both free). Then use which ever one you choose (i use SuperDuper) to backup your Macs drive. They will create a full system backup that is bootable, your backup will be identical to your internal drive. If your Macs drive dies you can boot from the external clone until you get the drive fixed.
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