My 5 year old MacBook Pro died on me in class - worst time to lose your files.

After getting a hard disk dock, torx and Phillips screwdrivers and spudger on speed delivery, I disassembled the MBP, got my HDD out, and cloned the disk to a new external hard disk.

I put the MBP back together successfully (mumbling to myself on what a fine job I did), brought it to the Apple Store and they took it away without much of a glance-over to check if anything looked fishy.

And now I got the gear to do data recovery services for people!

Yeah, just an update. And how am I typing to you like this? I had a second MBP lying around, duh.

Happy Halloween!