tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333078797879411990.post6008385339233454591..comments2023-10-28T06:17:52.321-04:00Comments on Apple's Tree: Panic AttackCharley "Apple" Grabowskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193646109965731249noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333078797879411990.post-48364046486213040562008-12-31T07:51:00.000-05:002008-12-31T07:51:00.000-05:00Tex - I got my car back Friday. My son's brakes we...Tex - I got my car back Friday. My son's brakes went Saturday so he has mine now because our mechanic closed up shop for the week! I do think the problems with the computer are more frustrating for me.<BR/><BR/>Randy - John has a USB enclosure otherwise called that thingamabob for hard drives! We did try that and it won't let us retrieve anything. So we figured it was a hard drive problem after all. Then we tried to install a new hard drive and got the lines that we associate with Gateway motherboard failures - this is far from our first. I did try to fix the problem originally and I may have messed up the hard drive as the motherboard problem caused it to reboot in the middle of the process.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the tips. We may get something off it yet.Charley "Apple" Grabowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07193646109965731249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333078797879411990.post-31522384599795444242008-12-31T01:48:00.000-05:002008-12-31T01:48:00.000-05:00Do you have a friend who is an IT whiz, works for ...Do you have a friend who is an IT whiz, works for a computer store, etc? They often have something called a USB Enclosure that can connect your old hard drive and capture files to another drive (either on a new computer, or on another computer to transfer to your computer.<BR/><BR/>A data recovery service can do this too, but it can be expensive. <BR/><BR/>My son-in-law is an IT director for a school district and does this all the time. He helped me out two years ago when my HD crashed. <BR/><BR/>If it was your motherboard that was bad, then your hard drive should be OK. You might even be able to connect it to another computer and use it, or at least download files from it.<BR/><BR/>Cheers -- RandyRandy Seaverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4333078797879411990.post-53767479590827207402008-12-30T23:39:00.000-05:002008-12-30T23:39:00.000-05:00Yikes. I'm glad you got most of your data retriev...Yikes. I'm glad you got most of your data retrieved. Is there anything more frustrating than computer problems? (maybe car problems, but it would be very close--we rely on them both so much!)Texhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17432175759270143492noreply@blogger.com