My First Mac Crisis
Last night we had a small crisis. Okay, if you ask Tim, I’ll be forced to admit it was a large crisis. And what, you ask, could have happened? (drumroll please) My Mac ate a corrupt DVD that Tim fed it.. and wouldn’t give it back.
To be more specific: the computer continued to try to read the disk for minutes and hours on end, refusing of course to eject it because according to the Mac no disk was really in the drive. Nothing would make it stop trying to read this disk, though - you’d think it contained all the secrets to a happy Mac life. Finally I forced the computer to shut off - which did have the desired result that the drive stopped spinning - but resulted in my computer not even being able to BOOT because it kept spinning the disk over and over and over again on boot.
This is my first mac. Ever. So I know I’m a newbie but please, WHY do Mac drives not have an eject button? Isn’t that like one of the most basic components of a CD drive?
Yeah, I know, you want to know how the crisis ended? We turned the thing on and let it spin the disc for something like 10 minutes after which it finally boot into the OS. Then we eventually got the disc out in iDVD by creating a DVD-template and trying to burn it - the computer couldn’t burn the disc and spit it out. I have never been so happy to see a corrupted DVD in my whole life.
on September 20th, 2006 at 23:31
There’s a cool thing you can do if you have a Mac with wedding pictures… I think you can get your wedding pics turned into a bound book or something for like $30 at some website I read about in a bridal magazine..
Ooh, and I posted prospective bouquet stuff!