I had a startup hard drive failure on my iMac. (It was replaced free on a recall.) I was able to restore it fully from a Time Machine backup, all 600 gigabytes. Took about four hours. Paul On Dec 27, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
> As I posted a while back, pro camera repair just refunded my money on > repairing and modding my K-5. So, in short, the $350 that was burning > a hole in my pocket is now buring a hole in Miserere's pocket, and > a Tamron 28-75/2.8 lens arrived this morning, just in time for me to > take a short photo road trip to Death Valley and environs. > > Meanwhile, a short while back, I found myself with a $500 credit at the > apple store, and turned that into a big chunk of the cost of a brand new, > last generation macbook pro. Last night, I installed Lightroom 5.3 on it, > all well and good. Then Apple wanted to install a couple of updates on it. > > OK, fine. Well, maybe not so fine. It gave a couple messages, which I'm > afraid that I didn't write down, then went to a grey screen with a spinny > disk, for hours. I think it might have said something about iTunes or the > app store. I booted it in safe mode, it seemed fine. I booted it in > recovery mode, checked the hard drive, it was fine. It still wouldn't > boot. I downloaded and then installed a fresh copy of the OS, and I'm back > to a grey screen and a spinny disk. > Reboot in safe mode, install my external spinny drive, setup time machine, > and see how long that will take me. I pretty much have everything saved > on an external drive, because I just set the computer up and haven't > actually done much of anything with it. > > It had been saying six hours to do a 200G backup, so I excluded a bunch > of random stuff, and maybe that'll go a lot quicker. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
