Steffen's Tech Blog

Two weeks ago my MacBook wouldn't start because of a hard disk defect. As the Macbook still was within the warranty period, I took it to the nearest Apple authorized service provider A.S.T.I. GMBH AGENTUR FÜR SYSTEME (that I have found via http://www.apple.com/de/buy/locator/index.html ), where they replaced the HD. At home, I restored my Macbook HD content (that furtunately had been regularly backed up via Time Capsule) with the following steps (based on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1177 ): Install the system from the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard DVD Restart the Mac Connect Time Capsule via an Ethernet cable with the Macbook Click "From a Time Machine backup or other disk." when asked if you want to transfer information from another Mac or volume (in the Do You Already Own a Mac?" window). Click Continue Select Time Capsule when it appears as a Backup Volume and click Continue The Macbook starts to check the Time Machine backup and the "Transfer Your Information...

11 days ago my boot hard disk crashed during some Norton Antivirus scanning in Windows XP. My desktop PC is a Fujitsu-Siemens Computer Scaleo T A64 XP 50 AM2 0 2,0GB bougth in 2006. I had Windows XP installed on the original Sigate 320GByte disk that contained also all my data (as I wanted to use the same files from both Windows and Ubuntu and Windows can't write on the Ubuntu file system but Ubuntu can write on the Windows NFTS format). In addition I had installed a 400 GByte harddisk with a backup partition and my Ubuntu installation. The bios couldn't find the Sigate disk any longer and as this disk contained the boot loader - neither the Windows XP nor my Ubuntu 7.10 did start. An clicking noice confirmed that there was a serios problem with the Sigate disk. What to do? As I have a three-year service contract from Fujitsu-Siemens I first contacted the Fujitsu-Siemens service via the service phone I found under http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com . They aggreed to send somebody...