Consider yourself lucky, My computer’s a hard drive began making a terrible clicking and scraping noise immediately after I upgraded. Now it won’t boot and the clicking and scraping won’t go away.

In the meantime, I’m using an old broken computer while I wait to send the more broken one in to be fixed. No, I hadn’t backed up since the middle of May.

Ack! That’s awful. Did you guys try the old standard, putting the machine (sealed inside a ziploc bag) in the freezer for a while, and then trying it out? I tend to have little faith in Apple’s willingness to save your data, so I’d try stuff like that before sending it off… you’ll certainly get a fixed hard disk, but it’ll be a new or refurb one without your data on it. :(

I’ve never even heard of freezing the computer to fix it! I’ll ask jjg about it.

Weirdly, I’m not so concerned about the data. The idea of starting with a clean slate is somehow really appealing - and I’ll bet I’d never miss what was lost.