Backup

Boot into single-user mode and run the good old fsck on the disk. If it can't fix the drive, drives are cheap enough to buy a cheap one to replace it (and wish you had a BACKUP).

Thank you so much djackmac. I'm relieved to find out that data recovery is at least possible. So I'm leaning towards option 2 because it seems to be the most problem free. I'm just gonna go into detail about the instructions you gave just to make sure I understand it correctly. 1. Put in Leopard DVD (even though my system was running snow leopard when it crashed. can I...

You have a few options. 1. Plug in external HD. Boot to installer DVD and format the new drive. Then go to utilities/restore from backup. Follow the prompts from there to choose the volume etc..In my experience this takes longest, but is the easiest. But also if something goes wrong you are left with few options other than starting over again from the beginning with little...

Sorry- Im sure you guys probably get this 100 times a day... I've tried to read up on websites on how to fix it- but I don't know which version of OnyX to download and I can't find the folder in Application Support to delete stuff that uncompatable.... I am no very good a computers so any help would be appreciated. It crashed extremely often and whenever I open a site...

Well, I've got the OS X and Windows partitions moved to the new drive but I haven't tried to fully boot from it yet. I ended up doing this: Connected 250GB HDD via external USB enclosure I used Disk Utility to create two partitions on the 250GB drive, sized the way I want I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the OS X partition on the internal HDD to the OS X partition on...

Did iTunes make a backup of your device? ...

If it really doesn't power on, target disk mode isn't an option. But as Giaguara said you could always remove the drive and install it in an enclosure. We sell the enclosures and will either remove the drives and install them into an enclosure for the customer or create a disk image and copy it to a customers external HD. If you've never taken apart an ibook, its best just pay...

ust myself then some third party programming about my Macs. The whole process was time consuming but it did work out well in the end. The important thing was the backup to relay on it in case of serious problem. ...

I kind of just had to mention that this seems to happen a lot to me with 10.5 server, where it messes up the username a lot. So what I do is log into the server using the user name "root" with the password you set and then resetting the stuff.

The only sorts of backup program I know of is the journaling function: I tried to disable the journaling using Onyx, but that didn't change the periodical HD activity. I should add that if I boot in safe mode (maybe the name is different in Mac OS X) the periodical write in on the hard drive doesn't happen. Also, this phenomenon was there right after the fresh installation of...