Baber Information: Hard Disk Drives For Mac

1. Baber Information: Hard Disk Drives For Mac Mac

Oct 31, 2007 - Possibly useful information for any kind heart: the mdworker on the. I would also verify the disk, to ensure there isn't any data structure or drive issues. Trash it or move it to a drive not on your mac, or rename it to a type that. My hard drive crashed on my Imac took it to computer repair they installed new hard drive, tried to recover data but could not, when we presented the imac to the apple store they told me i would have to buy back my old hd from them um hello no way, so thats why we went to another place that works on macs, so apple said i had lion on the mac, i couldnt remeber but now i remember i had leopard.

Some Macintosh users who rushed to download the latest version of iTunes – Apple's popular digital-music player –were singing a song of woe on Friday. A bug in the installation procedure caused the application to completely delete their computers' hard drives. Apple issued and a fixed version of on Saturday morning, and the company urged people to remain calm. But on Mac discussion boards, few people were calm. 'Feel like throwing this piece of #### through their office window,' wrote James Glasgow on Apple's. 'This is the last straw.' However, on Apple's discussion site, hundreds of people reported losing data, many of them describing themselves as 'angry,' 'frustrated' and not 'happy campers.'

Many also reported that the disk recovery applications didn't work for them and wondered whether Apple could be held liable for the loss of their data. The bug seems to have affected computers with a very specific configuration: people running Mac OS X who had 'partitioned' big hard drives into several smaller ones, and who'd typed a space at the beginning of the drive name. For example, if a Mac had a drive named ' music' instead of 'music,' it might have been deleted by iTunes. Tom Fisher, a computer repair technician who lost about 100 gigabytes of information during the installation, said that people often include a space in the drive name to ensure it shows up at the top of the list when they examine their drives. So far, Fisher said he has only managed to recover about 30 MBs of the data he lost – about 0.03 percent. 'So I'm very unhappy,' he said, unhappily. 'I'm not sure what I'm going to do at this point.

I'm still waiting for some official statement from Apple about this.' Some wondered whether Apple would compensate people for their data loss, but many people noted that the iTunes license – like most software licenses – indemnified the company against such bugs. Apple could not be reached for comment on Monday to say whether or not it would compensate users.

Baber Information: Hard Disk Drives For Mac Mac

But one anonymous user said that Apple was compelled to do something. 'They'll try to wriggle out, quoting the license, but what the heck are you going to back up a 40, 60, or 80 gigabyte drive onto – CD's?' Wrote another anonymous poster.