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My laptop is back!

Posted on 2005-12-24 by Jim

Woo hoo! SantaDHL came by yesterday and I got my PowerBook G4 back from Apple! In fact, I’m posting from it right now. I’m a bit busy preparing for Christmas to spend much time on recovering all my files, settings, … Continue reading →

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The continuing PowerBook saga

Posted on 2005-12-19 by Jim

My laptop has been dead for nearly 3 months! Why does every step of this process seem to trip me up?

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DiskWarrior wasn’t able to help me

Posted on 2005-11-09 by Jim

After nearly 7 weeks, I’m giving up hope that DiskWarrior can recover my drive’s data.

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DiskWarrior finally completed “step 5″

Posted on 2005-10-06 by Jim

Sometime Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, DiskWarrior finally completed “Step 5: Locating directory data…” which gives an elapsed time of 200-216 hours or almost 9 days! It’s currently working on “Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 146″ which translates to quite a bit … Continue reading →

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Still rebuilding my laptop disk

Posted on 2005-09-28 by Jim

In an earlier post/comment I started running DiskWarrior in an attempt to recover my laptop’s failed harddrive. Still running after 47 hours, but no sign of progress (or failure) yet…

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PowerBook boot problem revisited

Posted on 2005-09-25 by Jim

Second attempt at recovering boot drive contents with DiskWarrior

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PowerBook boot failure

Posted on 2005-09-24 by Jim

My PowerBook won’t boot. How to boot single-user for diagnostics. Attempting repair with DiskWarrior.

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