--- Doug & Bernice Hinschberger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working on my brother's iMac DV SE. He brought
> it over when it wouldn't
> boot up, and we could hear this 'clicking' sound in
> the vicinity of the
> HD/CD when it was first turned on/powered up. At
> start up, we get the
> flashing question mark and folder icon.
>
> He'd had some ongoing problems with the DVD/CDR. But
> when he brought it
> over, it wouldn't accept a CD at all. I tried
> putting in a system CD or
> Norton CD, and it would just spit it back out
> (slot-loading). After several
> attempts, it finally wouldn't even accept a CD at
> all. So I couldn't boot it
> up.
>
> I bought and installed a straight CDR so we can now
> boot it up (it still
> makes the clicking sound at power up) using the
> Norton CD, but Norton
> doesn't see the HD.
>
> So, I'm beginning to suspect the worst.
>
> What do you suggest I do now? What are the options
> for salvaging data from
> the HD? I don't know whether he has any backups
> (I'll ask him when I give
> him the next update on the status of the
> repair....).
>
> Doug
>
>
> Doug and Bernice Hinschberger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At work I've got a G4 that this happened to. Same
thing, nothing would see the hard drive except that
old drive setup utility that came on every system disk
back before X. I tried just reformatting it and then
used Tech tool or Nortons... can't remember.. been a
while.. to map out the bad sectors but it still kept
happening.... after a day.... a week.. basically the
first time the computer tried to write to those
sectors that "supposedly" had been fixed.
My boss hates throwing anything away and it was a 60
Gig hard drive so what finally worked for me was to
use those little sliders when making multiple
partitions and leave the first third blank, since
thats where the problem always was. So now my 60 Gig
is 40 gig but hasn't clicked in about a year and a
half. It still made me nervous using it as the system
drive so I put another 40 gig in as master and made
that one the slave but like I said no problems in a
year and a half in any case.
Odds are your iMac only has 6 or 10 gigs to begin with
so rather than trying to find which part of the
platters have degraded and making the computer not use
them you probably would be better off getting a new
drive. Yesterday I was at Staples and they had 120
gig drives for $90 after a $60 mail in rebate. I've
finally got Panther coming in next week so I'm
probably gonna get one and pop it in my Bondi to start
off fresh.
Matt aka HamletUSMC
Bondi iMac/333 Blueberry iMac/350
http://geocities.com/hamletusmc/
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