Speaker For The Diodes - February 24th, 2010

05:24 am - QotD

"Keep your silly ways or throw them out the window
 The wisdom of your ways, I've been there and I know
 Lots of other ways, what a jolly bad show
 If all you ever do is business you don't like"
  -- from "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" by Ian Dury (b. 1942-05-12, d. 2000-03-27) and Chas Jankel (b. 1952-04-16), recorded 1976, released 1977

02:17 pm - Drive Arrived

New hard drive arrived today. Did manage to pick up screwdriver set at Radio Shack last night (for Torx screws). Two different sets of instructions said I'd need two Torx screwdrivers. One said T-8 and T-9; the other said T-8 and T-6. There were only two Torx screws involved, both T-6. (Glad I didn't just get the multi-tool with T-8/9/10/11 bits on it!) Took me just under an hour. No screws left over. No funny gaps in the case (except ones that were already there from when the strap on my laptop bag broke). Nothing rattles. So far, so good. Powering it up, I get a grey screen with a folder icon in the middle that alternates between a question mark and a Finder logo inside it, which is what I was expecting to see. Significantly, I'm not getting a black screen with panic messages from the boot loader. Just the "Dude, Where's My OS?" sign.

So now I just need an OS.

I'm still not sure whether the old drive is Entirely kaput, or just trashed enough that the OS can't load. If I manage to stick it into a USB enclosure, maybe I can see whether there's anything readable on it or not.

Hoping to borrow Leopard installation media tonight.