After a few days of my computer being down, I am officially back. My iMac was working fine up until Monday or so of last week. I went to log-in and after it took an abnormally long time to do so, I knew something was wrong. Especially after it froze up just as it started to open the first program.

After asking around (ok, I called Stephen), I (we) determined that my hard drive was probably crapping out on me. He came over, we tried to back up my old stuff to no avail. After he left, I had to grit and bear it through multiple close-to-45-minute-startups to get everything I needed onto an external drive.

We thought it might just be the startup disk, but after a failed attempt at repairing it, I gave up. I just decided to wipe the drive and do a complete fresh install of the operating system.

I figured this would work, I was wrong. At this point, I couldn’t even get the computer to start. So I went ahead with my plan to buy a new hard drive. It came yesterday and after installing it, which was much easier than expected, and installing my OS, I now have my computer close to what it was before it died.

I did learn something from all of this, Apple’s Time Machine is not to be taken for granted. I am now making sure to have everything backed up as I go. Next time, I will be prepared.

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