{"id":41,"date":"2009-01-20T22:12:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T06:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:57:13","slug":"dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Tuesday and my MacBook Pro 17\u201d (Mid 2007) succumbed to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor defect<\/a>.\u00a0 I confirmed I had a defective machine by using the serial number decoder ring<\/a>.\u00a0 What follows is what I did and how 4 hours later I sit here on my daughter’s iMac working with the same hard drive image I was using 4 hours ago on my MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n

Leaving work I closed the lid to put my machine to sleep.\u00a0 I got home and connected it to my home office and after opening the lid I had nothing.\u00a0 The machine sprang to life but the screen didn’t.\u00a0 Uh-oh.<\/p>\n

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I tried closing and opening the lid again – nothing.\u00a0 I held down the power button for 5 seconds to force the machine to sleep and then reboot – nothing.\u00a0 I removed power and the battery for 8 minutes; replaced the battery; booted and still nothing.\u00a0 I powered off the machine again and tried to reset the PRAM<\/a> \u2013 nothing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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At this point I realize the screen is dead.\u00a0 What do to?\u00a0 I jump on the Apple Retail web site and make myself an appointment<\/a> with the Genius Bar at Valley Fair for 8:30pm.\u00a0 My thoughts turn to how am I going to be productive without my machine?<\/p>\n

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I have been using Time Machine via a Time Capsule but I’ve never recovered a drive with it and that would take a long time.\u00a0 I also have a stale clone of my MacBook Pro drive built with SuperDuper<\/a>.\u00a0 My goal is to bring the clone drive up-to-date.\u00a0 I grab my firewire cable, my dead MacBook Pro and my stale USB Laptop Drive used for cloning and head for my daughter’s iMac.\u00a0 I connect the USB Drive to the iMac and the two Macs together via the firewire cable.\u00a0 I then turn on the MacBook Pro and hold down the letter \u201cT\u201d to start it into Target Disk Mode<\/a>.\u00a0 Voila, my MacBookPro’s internal hard drive appears on the the iMac desktop.\u00a0 I then launch SuperDuper on the iMac and have it Smart Update between my MacBook Pro and the clone on the USB drive. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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After that process completes I shut everything down and drive to the Apple Store; hoping beyond hope that there is some trick I’ve missed.\u00a0 Unfortunately there isn’t.\u00a0 I’m informed there is a motherboard in stock and if it isn’t already assigned it will take a couple days.\u00a0 Otherwise they’ll have to wait for the part and I won’t get it until next week.\u00a0 Ugh.\u00a0 I can hear my friend Drew in my head lamenting the no \u201cin home\u201d service from Apple.\u00a0 I signed the paper work and drove home.<\/p>\n

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Back at home, I’ve absconded with the girl’s iMac and have it in the office.\u00a0 Now for my final trick.\u00a0 With the iMac off, I plug in my cloned USB Drive.\u00a0 As I turn on the iMac I press the \u201coption\u201d key.\u00a0 This presents me with a list of bootable drives.\u00a0 The internal iMac drive or the external USB drive.\u00a0 I select the external USB Drive and poof – here I am back in my laptop environment telling you how I’m back to being productive in 4 hours.\u00a0 When I get my machine back I’ll reverse the Smart Update process and bring the MacBook Pro drive inline with the cloned backup. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Update:<\/strong> Apple turned around the machine in less than 24 hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Tuesday and my MacBook Pro 17\u201d (Mid 2007) succumbed to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor defect.\u00a0 I confirmed I had a defective machine by using the serial number decoder ring.\u00a0 What follows is what I did and how 4 hours later I sit here on my daughter’s iMac working with the same … Continue reading Don’t Panic<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gerrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}