Looks like my wife's Intel Macbook gave up the ghost some time last night. The laptop no longer fully boots and only gets to a flashing question mark folder. This normally means the Startup Disk location is, for some reason, unknown and the fix is easy enough: just boot form a repair disk or a OS X install disk and go to Disk Utility from the first install screen (following the language selection). Once there just click "Repair Disk" and you're off to the races. But for whatever reason my wife's disk is no loner "seen" by the laptop, and that's a bad thing. Looks like I'll be taking a trip to the Apple Store tomorrow to drop the laptop off for repair.
Shoot.
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This exact thing happened to my MacBook. The hard drive died, and Apple had to replace it. Unfortunately, I lost about 20GB of music (I still have the CDs though) and 2/3 of my digital photos. I asked Apple to send me the defective hard drive after they removed it so that I could look into getting the data restored. Of course, they forgot, and lost the hard drive. Thanks for nothing Apple! Well, at least they fixed my MacBook and replaced my stained top and bottom cover. (It's a white Macbook.)
My wife's MacBook had the same thing happen: hard drive just up and died 7 months after we got it. Apple replaced it, but it had been 3 months since I'd done a backup of her machine. So, I went right out and bought her this drive and hooked it up to Time Machine. Now, she just plugs in the drive when she goes to bed and we don't worry about it anymore (well, until the drive power supply died! but that's easy to replace at Radio Shack).
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