Lew,
Hopefully this will arrive with you and not the list as it is sent from a
W*****s machine.
Running a Macbook 13in, bought last October and not used very much.
You can reach me:
email: [email protected] or
Skype: rawoolgrove
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis Alexander" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: HD dimmed
yes.
your hard drive has either been locked or is dying.
symptoms of this include applications struggling to load, strange sounds
which you haven't heard before. irratic booting, etc. this is a dead hard
disk.
please could you drop me an email off list with details of your machine,
if you have apple care cover, etc and I can walk you through various test
steps, etc to identify a dead drive.
from what you have described, your drive has failed.
Hard drives have a shelf life, because of their rotational speed, heat,
data read and write processes, drives fail. When they do, you know about
it.
I've been there only yesterday with an SCSI drive which failed, had to
disassemble it, clean, respin and reassemble it to bring it back to life
to back up the contents to install on a nwer drive.
lew
On 4 Dec 2011, at 21:30, Roger Woolgrove wrote:
Hi all,
After installing some software and returning to desktop, MacbookHD is
dimmed and I seem unable to access it. In some instances a reboot
resolves this and in others it doesn't unless I leave it for somewhere
between 24 and 48 hours.
Does anyone know why the prolonged wait and better still, how do I
prevent it happening.
Thanks
Roger
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