Morning all, I have been having a lot of problems with my wife's 27" iMac over the last few days. It started running really slowly and locking up for 5-10 mins at a time and when performing a restart there was always a progress bar underneath the Apple logo which I assume means it is running a fsck in the background??
Logging into single user mode and running an fsck -fy brought back an error with the file com.apple.addressbook.abd.plist - something about a sibling link not being able to be repaired. A few restarts and a few more fsck -fy later and it comes back clean. But the machine is still locking up. Tried running spinrite on it but apparently it won't work with the iMacs due to the way the EFI talks to the disks. So, the question is, is there any software for the Mac that people trust to do disk repairs or failing that, where is the best place locally to get the drive replaced (Crawley area). There is an iStore (Apple reseller) near us but I have no experience of how good they are at repairing stuff. Any recommendations gratefully received. Thanks, -- *Paul Howard* web: phoward.com | twitter: @phowardcom <http://twitter.com/phowardcom> tel (UK): +44 (0)1293 738158 | mobile (UK): +44 (0)7903 505153 | tel (US) : +1 251 243 0058 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
