> On Mar 6, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Mark Sokolovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've noticed this to be an issue with my 2008 iMac 24". The original 750 GB > HDD was greyed out by Disk utility, and wasn't even remotely capable of being > formatted, citing a "unable to mount disk" issue everytime. > > I went the hard way and disassembled the entire machine, replacing the HDD > with another one, though, I feel there are other possible solutions.
I doubt it, that’s a common failure mode I’ve seen with HDD’s, and I wouldn’t rule out that as the OP’s issue. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve gotten a bad HDD out of the box. One of our PC suppliers got a bad lot one time and I got two DOAs in a row on a single warrantee repair; that was a lotta pain sitting on the telephone having them walk me through stuff I know perfectly well before they believed me. “Yes I have replaced hard drives before. Yes I observed static safety precautions. Yes, I tried swapping cables and SATA ports on the logic board. I swapped in a spare, much smaller drive we have and it worked perfectly so I know it’s not the logic board, cabling or operator error.” That particular vendor was out of business within a few months, so lord knows what shady gray market source they had for their HDD’s. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
