From: Are Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:17:21 +0200
Our G4 AGP/350 wouldn't start up today - we got the clicking sound the
HD usually makes before spinning up, but it never got further. Just
kept clicking and clicking. The Mac started up normally from a CD, and
another HD in the machine showed up normally.
Can this mean anything but a hardware failure of the HD? Anything I
can do short of replacing it? Thankfully I don't think there is
anything important on it that we haven't got other places, but it was
a nice 10 000 rpm IBM disk...
Well it sure could be a bad hard drive. It could however also be a
loose connection or bad cable etc . So I would check the power & ATA
cable etc. I would expect a drive to show odd behavior for a while
rather then die with no warning. Running fine and then failing to
startup the next time doesn't sound like drive failure to me. But
anything is possible I guess. best of luck and good there is no
important data being lost. Will S
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