POWERRR!!
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Alright. My sister tripped over her Macbook's power cord causing the computer to crash from the table top to the floor. (Magsafe FAIL!) The computer was still bootable, but she now couldn't access certain files (looks like damaged sectors to me, Sudden Motion Sensor FAIL!).
Despite that, the computer was still more or less usable for about a week until it finally decided to stop working altogether. It is now unbootable! I tried booting from the recovery CD to see if I could do a repair with Disk Utility, but the hard drive does not even appear in Disk Utilities' list of detected drives. What should I do now?
This is actually the second time that this had happened. The computer wasn't even dropped then, the hard drive just mysteriously quit one day. I was able to repair it by simply installing a new hard drive. The hard drive that is broken now is the one that I had put in just a few months ago.
Despite that, the computer was still more or less usable for about a week until it finally decided to stop working altogether. It is now unbootable! I tried booting from the recovery CD to see if I could do a repair with Disk Utility, but the hard drive does not even appear in Disk Utilities' list of detected drives. What should I do now?
This is actually the second time that this had happened. The computer wasn't even dropped then, the hard drive just mysteriously quit one day. I was able to repair it by simply installing a new hard drive. The hard drive that is broken now is the one that I had put in just a few months ago.