- 4:55am I just learned that I can get 3x rewards points if I buy an Amazon.com gift card through my bank’s Rewards website. Does anyone do this? #
- 12:55pm Got my iMac hard drive replacement done and finished reinstalling Mac OS X plus other programs… Now my Brother can watch Youtube again :) #
- 1:21pm Surprise visit by my Uncle and Aunt from LA, so I’m off to Rickshaw’s to get some food… #
- 13:49 My car smells like Chinese food… #
- 8:53pm is Michaelsing, Petcoing and Targeting… #
- 9:19pm is Food4Lessing… #
- 9:37pm They are playing “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” in Food4Less!!!… Oh wait… It’s like an extended version! :) #
- 10:04pm Ranch Style Beans flic.kr/p/7uwMLV #
Daily Archives: January 9, 2010
New iMac Hard Drive…
On Christmas Eve, my 20" iMac’s hard drive began to fail and intermittently work and not work. When I tried using my account, the spinning rainbow ball would just spin and spin and it would take forever to get something to work, so I remembered just forcing the iMac off by pressing the power button.
After a while, it eventually died and all I got was a flashing folder icon with a question mark… so the iMac would no longer start.
I talked with an Apple Support person about a week ago and they told me the the iMac had all the symptoms of a dead hard drive. He said that since it’s out of warranty, I can either try to fix it myself by buying a new hard drive and installing it myself. He even suggested searching YouTube for "hard drive iMac replacement". The second option was to bring it into an Authorized Apple Center, which was Macvolk in Concord.
I opted for the later, since the videos on YouTube were really intimidating… plus I tried to replace the hard drive on my Mac mini and I think I killed it, since it does work. I called Macvolk, and told them I would try to find a day off and bring it in.
Earlier this week, I was telling our Mark (our I.T. guy) and Ed (my coworker) and they suggest that I fix it myself. They said I can do it… hehe… plus they said I can get a 1TB hard drive for under $100… so that’s what I did…
I got the hard drive yesterday in the mail and with the help of iFixIt’s hard drive replacement guide. I embarked on repairing the iMac myself. I was nervous about opening the iMac up and bring it, but after getting through a few stumbling blocks, it started up…
I also decided to document it by taking time lapse photos of my progress. I use my regular XSi camera, but I also used my new PlantCam time lapse camera.
When I review the photos, I noticed that the PlantCam didn’t take photos of my whole progress. It stopped in the middle of it. I then realized that it was because the PlantCam has a programmed shut off time (so the camera would not take photos in the dark if placed outside)… and the time was set to 12 midnight… Oh well…
So after I got the hard drive replace and iMac put back together, I restarted it with a Mac OS X install disk and it worked… It took a while to install the base Mac OS X, since the hard drive was blank… so I left to continue overnight and now I’m installing other programs into it.
One last thought, I think I should get a portable hard drive to use as a backup for this iMac, using Time Machine… If I backup it up before, I could have just restored all the data… There are five accounts on the iMac now and since the hard drive fail, all that data is pretty much lost…
Wierd Dream…
I just woke up and remembered a weird dream I just had.
I was younger, because I was with my nephew Eric and Edwin, and they were still kids. We were at home and for some reason I was looking for a place to sleep… so I looked around the garage for a sleeping bag, which I found laid on our cot. I opened it and found my Mom laying there… but it was just her body and it was stiff like a rock…
This freaked me out, so I think I was running around or something and I went to the house to call someone. My Uncle Ray came and so did my Mom, which was weird. Back in the garage, I was confused to see two of my Moms. She then told me that a long time ago, even before when my Dad passed away, she passed away and a coworker of her’s transferred all her vital organs and her brain into a new body. She then showed me the healed scare around her neck. Then all of a sudden I felt better… and I don’t remember anything after that…
Earlier in the dream, I remembered having an appointment with a doctor (I think) and I was walking around a city, which I think was LA, so I was not familiar with it. I had a map, but when I was following it, my located would change. Come to think of it, I think the map was my iPhone, because I recall the flashing blue circle.
At one point, I think I was in a not-so-good area… and I saw a Wells Fargo ATM, which I used to get money, since I didn’t have any, but the ATM didn’t ask me for an amount to withdraw, it just automatically gave me a $20 bill… I then continued to search for the doctors office, and when I arrived the time was 3:20pm and I was 20 minutes late for my appointment… and that was the only thing I can remember about that segment…
Even earlier in the dream, I remember playing around our house when my nephews Eric and Edwin…. hmm… now that I’m trying to remember that segment, I can’t remember it…