Originally Posted by
solipsist716
Im pretty thoroughly computer illiterate, and I don't remember what kinda of insurance/warranty/service I got with my purchase ~ 2 years ago. Kinda dumb on my part. Guess ill find out later today. Tried repairing my HD, says it can't be and needs to be backed up and reformatted.
Something similar happened to mine about 6 months ago. Did you by chance ever backup your drive using Time Machine? I try to back mine up about once a month now.
To fix mine, I just yanked the hard drive, used a windows laptop to try to save all the data I could from the drive. Bought a new 1TB drive for $100 and put it in, then used Time Machine to restore the hard drive. Everything was back up and running like normal within an hour. Then whatever files I was missing that were recoverable that weren't backed up, I copied over from the windows machine via my home network.
All that said, I like to tinker with computers and their insides. If that's not really your bag, apple care is the way to go. The "geniuses" should be able to get you squared away pretty easily though based on what you're saying the problem is.
Back on top, today I saw a guy riding aero bars on a bike with panniers. I lol'd.