Here's the story.....
At the weekend my MacBook pro fell off a bed on to a hard laminate floor. This resulted in a lappy that refused to start up. I checked it on another apple lappy (starting up my MBP in "target" mode), & the other machine couldn't see the drive over firewire either.
Luckily, I regularly back up to an external drive using Time Machine. So I popped down to my local apple reseller, brought a new drive, & restored from my time machine backup.
Total time to install the new HD & pull everything back from my time machine backup. ....about 4 hours!!
What impressed me the most is that you don't even have to re-install OS X on the new drive first. Just make sure it's formatted using disk utility on the OSX install DVD, then select the time machine app from the utilities menu & follow the instructions.
So if you're an apple user & you don't use time machine (or Carbon copy cloner or something similar), then now is the time to start. ....you'll be glad you did if you ever need it.
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