So, I flung my iBook off my desk. It was an accident. The hard drive got destroyed.
Opening up an iBook G4 is no small task. So I felt super-cool about taking the thing apart, putting the varios sets of screws into little baggies, diagramming where they came from... I was SO on it. I left the computer open-but-covered for two days, while I waited for my new hard drive to arrive. In the meantime, I worked off of the incredibly painful external drive, hooked up to an eMac at work. Thank goodness for backups.
So, today, I spend a whole bunch of time putting the iBook back together. Only 1 extra screw! (Yikes!)
The iBook seemed fine, but the cloning the data kept failing. Oh, lordy, I thought. I'm going to have to open this thing up again. But it turns out that the EXTERNAL DRIVE went bad. And, of course, I didn't back THAT up, since I was only using it for a day or two.
It's been four hours now, and I'm still trying to get data off the drive. Ugh.
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