For the second time in a year my iMac crashed in a non-recoverable state. It's the second time I've had to do a complete re-install after reformatting my hard drive. Luckily, I'm pretty diligent with backing my stuff up but it's still freakin' annoying. I dread kernal panic. I'm not sure why it seems to hose my hard drive beyond recognition but I'm starting to wonder if it's a hardware issue. I'll admit I was trying out some third-party software that I downloaded and perhaps that was the problem but I should just be able to turn off my computer and restart. For some reason it unmounts my hard disk a screws up the directory so my Mac can't find the boot volume.
This time I managed to salvage most of my data by installing the OS on my external drive and trying to repair the disk but it didn't repair it enough to boot off of but at least it would mount.
So now I'm stuck with the labourious task of reconfiguring my system back to the way it was. This is an annoying procedure because I always afraid I'll throw away the wrong file or screw up some library or something. Plus in the meantime I can't really back up anything else because my system's not really the way it's supposed to be. Last time it took me a week to get back into a comfort zone.
Oh well. Must remember to purchase my Apple Care before the year is up.