The Good, The Bad and The Angry

The Good

After years of wishing and hoping… finally … I am now a  true blue Mac User! Yup….I just bought a new Mac Book – white and all! I bought it at the Computer Expo in Suntec City last week! I initially wanted to buy the new iMac … kaya lang big factor sa akin ang portability. I decided to buy a MacBook Pro instead — yun nga lang — out of stock worldwide daw. The only MacBook Pro model  available costs SGD$4000++. Aba – sobra na yun ha…. Magagalit si Suze Orman sa akin nyan! So – finally – I decided that the MacBook is not that bad na rin naman.  Di lang yan — swak na swak pa sa aking budget! So… settled… Mac Book — hmmm … white or black dilemma naman! Aiyah – hirap naman magdecide! Black seems too common…. white  is too dumihin.  Specs-wise … halos pareho lang namn.. Hmmm… white!  Bakit white? Wala lang — black is evil… white is good… so sa GOOD  tayo ! J  Shifting from Windows to Mac needs some getting used to. Pero so far – surviving pa naman ako.  I am very happy with this purchase … so far. J Keeping my fingers crossed …

 

 

 The Bad

Last Sunday, I was organizing/transferring my files from my old Acer laptop to my 200 GB external hard  drive. Ito kasi yung backup drive ko which contains my entire life… okay.. medyo exaggerated… but it does contain all of my important stuff.  Dito nakasave ang aking entire I-tunes library, MP3s, Pictures, videos, documents, emails  etc..etc… It has everything. After the transfer – I connected the drive to my new Mac Book and everything was fine.  I restarted my Mac Book…. Everything looks ok… pero parang hindi nito madetect yung external drive ko… since di ko ma-eject yung drive… tinanggal ko na lang ito… the ibinalik ulit. To my complete surprise –  may message na nagprompt —- “No valid system something…..  Reformat disk now?” – or something to that effect. Di ko na matandaan  yung exact message.  Kasi panic mode na ako e. I shutdown my MacBook…. then connected the external drive to my old Acer laptop. Same thing – need to reformat na daw! Gusto ko sanang sumigaw ng “Whaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttt”…. Kaso naalala ko na naiinis nga pala ako kay Bodie (of Pinoy Big Brother Season 2) pag nag-wa-what-what… So… sabi ko na lang… Nooooooooooooo!!!! L Hay naku… BAD! Since its a must na marecover ko files ko — (specially the pictures hehehehe)… I searched the net for any company who can do the retrieval. I found one – near our place pa… pero minimum fee daw of SGD$500! Aba… mas mahal pa sa hard disk ko! Ano sila… sinusuwerte…. So search ulit ako – found a freeware that can do the retrieval. Okay naman — but the process was so slow. Pero di bale – okay lang na slow… basta marecover ko ang aking precious data… J

The Angry

Since the retrieval of my precious data is a little slow — I decided to visit a computer store near our place – Challeng-er (without the hyphen … nilagyan ko lang.. para mahirap i-google back). Aside from the usual computer stuff — this store has their own computer clinic which I already have a previous bad experience. Pero dahil sa software naman ang bilhin ko – no issue… or so I thought.  Wala masyadong selection since its not their flagstore branch – but I saw a couple of software for fixing disks and data retrieval.. I approached someone from the store and informed them of my problem… tinanong ko rin which of the 2 software I found is good.  Dahil di pamilyar yung natanungan ko – she decided to ask someone else… when she returned she said that the two software may not fix the problem of my disk since it is only for “internal  hard disk ” and not for “external hard disk”. I asked what’s the difference – hardware wise – it should be the same – external lang yung isa.. and internal yung isa. Somehow – she cannot answer my question – which is okay naman. Suddenly – may isang bigla na lang sumingit  na kung sino – and this person said  that hindi na raw mareretrieve ang mga data from external hard disk. Hmp. Di naman naming sya kausap… and yung pagkakasabi pa nya ay in a condescending tone. Hmp. The ANGRY side of me surfaced – and sinagot ko sya … sinabi ko na nakakita na ako sa net ng software na nakakapagretrieve and is currently retrieving my files… I am just asking if may software na iba which can do the same job but faster. Kainis. Di naman kasama sa usapan… nagmamarunong! Please lang no. Nagkataon na bad mood ako.. tapos magmamagara sya. Wala lang…. pasensya na… tao lang… na nagcrash ang hard disk….. Anyway – di na lang ako bumili — tama na yung slow… pero at least ay sure… and free! J

 

Lastly…… wala lang…..