![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then the screen stayed black, forever. I had to reboot at one point because I hadn’t done so in a week. I was working on an important print job for a client. And this past month, my new 2018 Macbook Pro died. I lost 2 or 3 hard drives to a bad enclosure in one of my RAID drives before I figured out the enclosure was faulty and frying the drives. That’s the treasure map computers use to find all your data on a computer, so if the FAT goes, you’re pretty much done (Disk Warrior helped me save some of that data). There was the time the File Allocation Table on my drive was corrupted. It got too hot and literally cooked the hard drive until it failed. There was the time I sabotaged myself by putting a home-built computer into an enclosed desk drawer. I can remember losing at least 5 complete hard drive failures. I’ve recently updated it and it is a critical guide for making sure you don’t lose important data… And if you don’t have a robust backup strategy, pause here and read my previous article on how to create a “bulletproof” backup strategy. But it wasn’t easy, so I decided to write a bit of a survival guide in case you ever have your Apple computer crash. Thankfully, I had backup clones and was able to get everything back. As if that weren’t bad enough, my Time Machine backup failed too. ![]() Something went bad on the motherboard, and when that happens on the new Macs with the “T2” chip, you lose everything on your hard drive. I just lost everything on my new Macbook Pro. ![]()
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