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After I removed the casing on my broken iMac, I had to solve three riddles posed to me by a leprechaun. After solving them correctly and wrestling a small apple-shaped giant to the death, the leprechaun allowed me to plunder the computer’s contents as I wished.
That little blue bar in the lower left quadrant of the screen is TOTALLY all my comic files being moved from the old computer’s hard drive to the new computer.
This is what is known as a “backup strategy.”
(Just kidding; by doing this I saved about 10 hours of file work, and the rest was backed up… but I’m going to start using SuperDuper now, probably.)
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wow, that’s some alien architecture.
Comment by Brandon — 03/11/2010 @ 5:38 am
So what exactly did you do there? Did you take the hard drive out, put it in an enclosure and plug it back into the same board u took it out of? Why would that even work? Gah!???
Comment by JvP — 03/11/2010 @ 12:11 pm
It is, Bo-ran-don! Leprechauns and small giants notwithstanding, it actually was pretty weird in there, as far as I could tell… I had to remove the motherboard to be able to unscrew the HD, which I’m guessing isn’t normal in, say, a PC tower. There were also screws with weird heads, where the holes were asterisk-shaped. Also: there was much foil.
JvP!!!! They look like they could be the same computer from the pictures, but there are actually two separate computers there - the one in the first two pics broke (something happened to the motherboard, I think) and so I got the one in the third pic (Best Buy has Macs that you can just GET RIGHT FROM THE STORE!). That’s why my lessons learned is zero… I got another Mac in spite of my last one giving me negative reinforcement by suddenly breaking. I pulled the HD from the broken computer and put it in an enclosure, and it’s connected to the new computer by USB. My old motherboard can TAKE THAT TO THE BANK AND SMOKE IT!
This was my first try at opening a computer and messing with its hardware, so woo! I’m glad it worked!
Comment by Paul — 03/11/2010 @ 4:14 pm