Catastrophic Failure

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  I am currently more than a little stressed that my operating system on my MAC has suffered a catastrophic failure.  To be fair its not as stressfull as the idea of server migration, which was actually OK in the end.  Having said that it is pretty damn close.

  Since the OS system has collapsed, it will not read disks and is totally unresponsive to any command.  I Googled how to reboot the old operating system but all the key commands were MAC specific and I have a normal keyboard. 

  Several websites later I was able to translate the keys such as eject and apple command and promptly went through the process of getting the computer to read the set up disc in the drive.

  All appeared to be working correctly untill the disc intitiation which came back as error.  Repeat 3 times = error.  Did I mention I have a sticky disc drive?  My MAC will not eject discs easily.  Specifically it will not eject the mac set up discs that came with the computer.  All others have been fine.  Since eject is through the screen or eject command then you are relying on the operating system to kick it out when you ask it to.

  This has been difficult even when I had an operating system and relies on the utilsation of a guitar plectrum (the only thing small and thin enough) to keep the clip back and a pair of tweezers to grab it once the disc emerges its 1 milimeter edge.  You need patience and a good grip since grabbing it first time is unlikely.  However I have had much practise at this and can usually do it within 3 ejects.

  Anyway - my MAC is more than a little sick and I am preying that with the right care it can be bought to life.  It may suffer a little "brain damage", as in all my data may be lost.

  So the lesson here is back up your data.  I know this so very well from previous experiences and had recently bought myself a new drive for that very purpose.  Sadly my house keeping is chronic and I just had not got round to it.

  So friends, please prey with me for one last chance not only to repair my MAC but to save us from lost data.  Its on its way to the specialist now!

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