I love my iBook. Really I Do but…
Posted By Kathleen David on May 28, 2007
BUT the fracking video card went AGAIN!!!!
So I have no working screen and no working computer.
And the total suck on this (with a big SORRY to Keith) my Doctor Who story is on the hard drive and no where else.
I haven’t a clue when I am going to or if I CAN get it fixed.
Off to our local Apple Store todayto find out.
AAARRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
*Sigh* and things were going so well….
I am grateful that I had done a photo back-up the other day.
Ideally, the Apple Store people should mention this, but if not…
If you have access to another Mac with a Firewire port, you can restart the iBook while holding down the “t” key to boot it into “Firewire Disk Mode,” which basically transforms it into a very expensive external harddrive. Then you can connect it to the other Mac with a Firewire cable, and take whatever you want off the iBook’s internal drive. Voilà, one rescued story.
If you don’t have another Mac, I expect you could ask the Apple Store people to do it before they begin surgery, and then e-mail it to an account you can access on another computer.