Hey Peter,
Hard drives can be fickle beasts. I had a peecee with 3-6.4gb drives and shut the system down one afternoon to do some network changes... didn't touch that system other than shutting down windoze. Came back later and the machine wouldn't start. Turned out, two of the WD drives were fried. Plugging them into any system overloaded and shut down the power supply. They were working just fine till I shut the machine down.
Hard to say what is wrong with your drive, but the rattling sound is definitely a bad thing. Any chance of a warranty replacement?
Amanda
On 11/07/2004, at 12:36 PM, Peter wrote:
Hello to the list,
Was wondering what would cause a good hard drive to go bad. I have two
iMacs, iMac 500 and iMac 350, the 350 had a 40gig hard drive and the 500
had a 20gig. Since I was upgrading the 500 to Panther I decided to switch
the hard drives, (both working fine no problems). The 40 works fine in the
500 now, but the 20 is no longer working, it has the sound of a empty paint
can with the ball rattling around, same sound I've heard before in a bad
hard drive. What would cause a perfectly good hard drive to go bad with just
a easy switch? I've gone back over everything, connections all good, hit the
cuda still nothing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Peter
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