Okay so my Mac died a few days ago. Which means...

[Smythe]

I need people to release any map files that I gave them, specifically my B30 mod

Woul be greatly appreciated, as I no longer have he ability to work on it, nor any Mac modding stuff :c

[Sparky]

Hard drive failure? Or the screen or something else hardware-related?

[Smythe]

Hard drive failure? Or the screen or something else hardware-related?

Hard Drive we think, we had to do a full re-install to get it working again, and nothing was backed up :/

[Modzy]

Hard drive failure? Or the screen or something else hardware-related?

Hard Drive we think, we had to do a full re-install to get it working again, and nothing was backed up :/

I'd buy a new drive, if it failed then it probably doesn't work properly no matter reinstalling the OS. Next time a hard drive failure occurs, buy a new drive and take the failed one to a computer shop that does specialized data recovery. If you need to use the computer and don't have a drive, you can always install Mac OS X onto a flash drive. Might be a good idea to keep an emergency dedicated flash drive with OS X on it like I do in such cases.

[Smythe]

Hard drive failure? Or the screen or something else hardware-related?

Hard Drive we think, we had to do a full re-install to get it working again, and nothing was backed up :/

I'd buy a new drive, if it failed then it probably doesn't work properly no matter reinstalling the OS. Next time a hard drive failure occurs, buy a new drive and take the failed one to a computer shop that does specialized data recovery. If you need to use the computer and don't have a drive, you can always install Mac OS X onto a flash drive. Might be a good idea to keep an emergency dedicated flash drive with OS X on it like I do in such cases.

Thanks for the advice, we'll look into it when it happens again. Though we might just get a new mac, this one is roughly 6 or 7 years old.