On Friday 14 January 2011 11:08:42 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Tim, > > > My daughter Macbook seem to have given up the ghost, while we can it > > to boot to the desktop 1 in 3 attempts, it is very slow. > > Could it be the hard drive having trouble? Perhaps an important bit of > data is proving hard to read and the drive only manages it sometimes, > after many retries. On Linux I'd used smartctl(8) to ask the drive for > its internal statistics but I don't know about Mac OS X. > > Cheers, > Ralph. > > Thanks for all the info guys, will pass on the Colehill details to my daughter
Ralph, it may well be but the system is so slow as to be unusable and not being able to stick a boot cd in makes life more difficult. It could equally be file corruption knocking the cpu to 100%, either way it need to be fixed. Unfortunately the laptop had my daughter college course work on it and like all good student she has no backups of the data Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
