Archive: 2008-09-21
How I rescued irreplaceable photos from a dead hard disk
I’ve been fixing a friend’s iBook G4 this week. The computer wouldn’t boot up—it couldn’t find anything to boot from—and emitted an alarmingly loud noise. I suspected a dead hard disk; by booting from a Linux CD, I was able to prove this. The computer worked fine, but the disk didn’t. I ordered a new hard disk, which arrived a few days later.