Here is a useful Apple document giving steps to follow when your Mac
does
not boot:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
For laptops that have problems relating to switching on, waking from
sleep,
and not charging, reset the Power Management Unit (PMU). The PMU
controls
Wez wrote:
If it ever does work briefly start backing up onto anything cause the
drive is still in a very bad shape.
The original IBM, now Hitachi, Desk(Death)Star failed in our G3 some
time back.
Different symptoms though, no noises, just an inability to read or write
with the drive and
What is with IBM inability to make HD's i've heard so many stories
about IBM drive failure its not funny.
So little recommendation... Stay away from Hitachi IBM drives :)
WEZ!
What is with IBM inability to make HD's i've heard so many stories
about IBM drive failure its not funny.
So little recommendation... Stay away from Hitachi IBM drives :)
Personally I've had no problems with them.
IBM/Hitachi make a lot of drives, they had a bad run of Deskstar
drives, but
interesting...
i'm still using that sort of drive for video applications,
i checked once the webpage for tech data, where it confirms a very high
power consumption plus the drives are not made for 24/7 continious use,
my drives are most of the time disconnected run only for a few hours
when i
That sounds like a head crash i'm afraid. Usually the final word in
dead hard drives ;\ Had it happen three times to different external
SCSI IBM drives before i decided to never touch IBM again.
I may be possible to hit the drive to get the heads mobile again
though you are looking for a real
I have a 120Gb Htiachi Deskstar hard drive (my main drive) that started
making a terrible clicking sound then a clunk last night.
I immediately shut down, thinking it might have been the heat and tried
starting up later with no luck, just the clicking noise and failure to
recognise the
depends on whether the drive has had a mechanical failure or whether
the directory is fragged. Sounds more like mechanical. I would put it n
a firewire case and try to access it with something like Disk Warrior
first and if it doesn't talk to that then Data Recovery X would be
next. If it
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