Catastrophic hard-drive failure
So, the G5 is FUBAR. Oops.
The good news is that, after swapping out the logic board and the hard drive, it’s like I have a whole new computer. The bad news is that it’s like I have a whole new computer, one without my 20,000 songs, 5,000 pictures and 20 months of email archives; one without my software customizations; one without all my Quicken data. I’m not looking forward to pulling the system back together again. At least I have been using .Mac for all my current work, so I have live versions of my current documents, address book and calendar. I also was good about burning CDs of all the business stuff, so that’s covered.
This is just not a whole lot of fun.
On a more positive note: Three cheers for the guys at the Genius Bar at the CambridgeSide Galleria Apple Store. They’ve done a fabulous job doing everything they can to save the machine, and keeping me informed about what’s going on. Good on them.
