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This has been a geeky, nerdy, and quite frankly, retarded week. And for the technologically illiterate out there, I'll try not to ramble on too much.
Update: I lied.

It all started when I was woken up very early Tuesday by my mother. Turns out, my father's MacBook refused to boot into Mac OS X, that for reasons to this day, are still beyond me. A brief examination of the circumstances, and I knew I was in trouble. I had a hunch; a Linux LiveCD, which for those who don't know, is an operating system you can run directly from a CD, with no installation. But the question was which one?

(FYI: I have little to no knowledge of Linux. After spending one and a half hours in the terminal, and on Google, trying to learn how to install my graphics drivers, I gave up.)

I did some reading online, and after about 15 minutes of Googling, I read a forum post by some guy with a llama avatar, claiming that Fedora 9 could read the file system used by Mac OS X, which is HFS+. Forty-five seconds later, I had a copy downloading. Once that completed, I burned it off, and ran it. That forum post?

Bull.

All it detected was a giant, 150GB mass, which it was unable to read, or open. Back to the drawing board. A little more research, and I found an application that supposedly hacked the Linux Kernel to recognize, read, and write to HFS+. The catch? The terminal. And lots of it. I figured I had nothing to lose, so I gave it a download. Knowing that I couldn't install anything on a LiveCD, I had no choice but to try and install Linux on the notebook.

"Easy," I thought. "I'll just insert my copy of Fedora, boot from CD, use their tools to partition 10GB of my hard drive, and install Linux, while leaving my father's data intact. Once installed, I'll suffer through an hour of terminal commands, rig this thing to read the HFS+ partition with the files I need on it, plug in an external hard drive, and pull off the data, thus saving the day!"

Wrong. In order to install a second operating system, without affecting the first, you have to dedicate space for the second system, by resizing the disk. This, I knew. What I didn't know, was that the partitioner I was using couldn't read, or write to HFS+, which is where all the data is stored on. In other words: since the partitioner couldn't read HFS+, I had to format the ENTIRE THING to ext3, or a file system it can read in order to resize it, thus losing everything, and defeating the entire point.

I'm screwed.

My father's data was trapped on a partition that seemingly nothing could read except OS X itself, and I was out of options, and patience. I had no choice but to format, and lose it all. I did just that. Two hours later, I was back at the fresh, clean macintosh desktop, installing updates. (Which went surprisingly fast, actually.) Turns out that my father's 'data' that he lost, was a single Keynote Presentation that he made the night before. The rest, he had backed up already. Angry? You bet I was.

But this was a good exercise for me. I never thought it would be this difficult to recover data on the Mac. Even though I personally keep regular backups, in case of hard drive failure, I always thought that in a situation like this, I'd be able to handle it. I'd like to ask, that if anyone knows of a burnable application that can manage HFS+ partitions, please let me know in the comments.
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On a different note, I seem to have hit another photography slump. I've taken a few photos this week, but nothing really appealed to me. I spent about a half hour working on a piece, and finally got around to submitting it, only to realize that my masking was terrible, and that my photoshopping is horrific at 4:30am. Needless to say I immediately pulled the piece. I haven't gotten around to working on it again, and frankly, it wasn't that good anyway. Sad to say that I'm not certain when I'll be able to update my gallery. When inspiration comes, I'll be sure that DeviantART is the first to know.

Well, that's about it for now. I'll update next time I'm alone, at home, on the weekend. In other words, until next week.

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