Seriously? You read "it needed a new motherboard" as "it would have been possible to back it up and restore it to its original state?" The machine would light up for about half of its boot sequence before auto-killing and flashing an error message on the LEDs at the front of the trackpad. And as I said, I had no way to get the data off the disk because of the ribbon cable (as opposed to a regular sata setup -- clearly used for its compactness).
I considered just leaving the disk out and sending it back minus a hard disk, but the warranty paperwork essentially forbade that (stating they reserve the right to not perform service on it if it's been 'tampered with'). So instead I spoke to the actual tech doing the actual work, and she assured me she would not touch the filesystem. If you read the link I posted before, you'll see just how right I was in being worried. And if you could have solved my catch-22 I would have paid you to do it :P
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Seriously? You read "it needed a new motherboard" as "it would have been possible to back it up and restore it to its original state?" The machine would light up for about half of its boot sequence before auto-killing and flashing an error message on the LEDs at the front of the trackpad. And as I said, I had no way to get the data off the disk because of the ribbon cable (as opposed to a regular sata setup -- clearly used for its compactness).
I considered just leaving the disk out and sending it back minus a hard disk, but the warranty paperwork essentially forbade that (stating they reserve the right to not perform service on it if it's been 'tampered with'). So instead I spoke to the actual tech doing the actual work, and she assured me she would not touch the filesystem. If you read the link I posted before, you'll see just how right I was in being worried. And if you could have solved my catch-22 I would have paid you to do it :P