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...
Hey. I have a first gen. white Macbook, and after 3 1/2 years of use, I started hearing the screeching sound coming out of my hard drive. The computer started to become more and more unresponsive over the next couple of days, and eventually the finder stopped loading. The computer still turns...