Apr

18

Sick iMacs & Answered Prayers

Post Category: Apple, Authenticity 

Sick iMac
Last night was pretty stressful for us. Lisa’s iMac wouldn’t boot up yesterday despite repeated attempts at troubleshooting the issue. Let me stop all the harassing comments before they start - while Macs are, in my opinion much better computers, they are still computers. Things go wrong.

Her computer has Quickbooks and all of my company’s accounting information on it so we needed it working so that she could invoice some customers. Fortunately there is an Apple store in Tampa about 45 minutes from us so I made a reservation at the Genius Bar to have them take a look.

Last night was also the night that Lisa’s Aunt was going to watch the kids so we could go out for dinner to celebrate our anniversary, which was a couple of days ago. We decided to drop the computer off at the Apple store and then go out for dinner.

Upon initial inspection of the computer they discovered that the hard drive appeared to have some corrupted sectors which kept it from booting completely. The lady told us to go have dinner while she ran some further recovery applications.

We had only been gone maybe 10 minutes and were just about to walk into the restaurant when I got a call that the hard drive was corrupted beyond repair and couldn’t be recovered. This completely ruined the mood of the evening because all of our accounting information was on this computer and it had not been backed up! Stupid, I know. But when I first started my business in October finances were tight and I used the only external backup drive I had bought for my laptop to back up my design files.

The wine we had ordered with our meal was now needed to dull the pain instead of setting a mood. As we sat there I grabbed Lisa’s hand and we both prayed that God would help them find a way to recover the data but Job 1:21 was floating in the back of my head (“the Lord gives, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord”).

After dinner I went back into the store. The lady behind the counter confirmed that the drive was, in fact, corrupted beyond repair and needed to be replaced. I asked if she could try locating one specific folder to recover. After booting up to her external drive and mounting the iMac’s local drive she navigated until she found the found the Quickbooks folder. “Here goes nothing!” she said as she dragged the folder onto her backup drive. Wonder of wonders, it copied! I think she was a little surprised as well!

It was with a much lighter heart that we left the Apple store the second time, thanking God for answering our prayers. With any luck her iMac will have its new hard drive installed by next week and we’ll be good to go.

I’m thankful God answers prayers for sick iMacs.

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  1. Jason Ruggles on April 18th, 2008 8:39 am

    Is
    this     very far from the truth now?

  2. bradruggles on April 18th, 2008 8:51 am

    *sigh* I said no harassing comments, but do you listen? Noooo.

    To answer your question, I still remain a Mac devotee and don’t see myself changing anytime soon.

    Brad

    bradruggles’s last blog post..Sick iMacs & Answered Prayers

  3. Jason Ruggles on April 18th, 2008 9:03 am

    It wasn’t a comment, but a question.
    You just took it the wrong way, brotha.

  4. Abbey on April 18th, 2008 9:08 am

    Wow, that’s amazing. Awesome story!

  5. Clayton Bell on April 18th, 2008 9:57 am

    Praise Jesus!

    in all seriousness, people don’t pray for technology enough. If devils can get into pigs, why can’t they get into computers?

    Where did you end up going for dinner?

  6. bradruggles on April 18th, 2008 11:21 am

    Yes, I do think we should pray more for our computers. I have prayed many times for some of my computers in the past but no amount of prayers could save a couple of my Windows PCs. ;-)
    Brad

    bradruggles’s last blog post..My Friend Lost 250 Pounds and is Featured on CNN

  7. Brook on April 18th, 2008 2:09 pm

    Congrats on gettin’ your data back. NOW GO BACK-UP!

    Brook Sarver
    http://www.two10eleven.com

  8. bradruggles on April 18th, 2008 2:54 pm

    I know, I know…rub it in. Technically though I should note that this was my wife’s computer so it’s her fault for not backing up. My laptop is fully backed up on a daily basis (thank you Time Machine).

    But either way, I am ordering an external drive ASAP. :-)
    Brad

    bradruggles’s last blog post..My Friend Lost 250 Pounds and is Featured on CNN

  9. a^2 ron on April 19th, 2008 1:17 pm

    once again a computer distroyed by lisa. gosh, this is the 3rd one within a year!!

  10. sTim on April 20th, 2008 4:44 pm

    I’m happy to hear you were able to save the data, and even happier to hear that you’ve finally joined the real world (i.e. admitting that Macs have problems too). =)

    That’s really all I’ve ever asked for out of the Mac fanboys… just admit that your machines have shortcomings too and what they are!

  11. bradruggles on April 20th, 2008 7:28 pm

    Aaron - I know…crazy, huh?

    Tim - I’m with you man. Computers are made up of thousands of electronic components made in hundreds of factories all around the world. There is no way you can expect a problem-free experience on a Windows or Mac machine.

    - Brad

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