So this morning I had a little bit of a terrifying moment when Katrina brought me her computer because it wouldn’t boot. and the hard disk was making terrible noises.

Immediately I started going though my “I’m really sorry but…” IT speech in my head. Then, as if the IT gods of yore touched me with a ray of shining light, a solution came to me: smack the crap out of the drive and see if it works again.

So I did! I held the drive in my left hand and gave it two solid whacks with the right, then replaced the drive in the computer and booted it into firewire mode. Ta-da! The drive showed up, no problems at all. Immediately made a backup of her system and now we just gotta wait to get the drive replaced under Applecare!

Who would have thought that literally giving the computer a spanking would make it behave? teehee