Help! Accidentally formatted hard disk with data on it (Macintosh)

cd34 · 2009-09-03, 10:31 PM

went to the data center today, got back, laptop was warm (should have gone to sleep), opened it up, black screen. power cycled, got the file folder with the ?.

41 minutes later, after a reinstall & restore from time machine, I restart firefox, it tells me that it must have crashed, asked to restore my tabs, and I'm back up and running.

I hope you get your files back, but, time machine has now saved me twice.

Cleo · 2009-09-03, 10:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cd34

time machine has now saved me twice.

Time Machine has saved me so many times I've lost count. Just last week I spent a several hours rendering a movie. Then when I started the next render I accidentally overwrote it with the next render. Luckily Time Machine had already backed it up and it just took a few minutes to restore it.

2009-09-03, 10:31 PM	#1
cd34 a.k.a. Sparky Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: West Palm Beach, FL, USA Posts: 2,396	went to the data center today, got back, laptop was warm (should have gone to sleep), opened it up, black screen. power cycled, got the file folder with the ?. 41 minutes later, after a reinstall & restore from time machine, I restart firefox, it tells me that it must have crashed, asked to restore my tabs, and I'm back up and running. I hope you get your files back, but, time machine has now saved me twice. __________________ SnapReplay.com a different way to share photos - iPhone & Android