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- CyBrain0
By the way, Tekserve was going to charge me $150 to install the hard drive. Replacing a hard drive in a Mac Pro is as easy as taking off the case, removing the old one from the left bay, unscrewing four screws from the metal carrier in the bay and putting the new one in. It took about 10 minutes.
- CyBrain0
VICTORY IS MINE!
I got everything back. I haven't needed to reinstall any software so far. Master Collection, Office, Transmit - all good.I accidentally reinstalled the system instead of going to Disk Utility from the Snow Leopard DVD first. The next time I did it right. I have everything back so far. Browsers, iTunes library. I'm afraid to start Adobe stuff now.
- that's great.akrok
- fingers and toes crossed, man - good luck!DoktorDavid
- Yeah, forget that second bit about Adobe, I wrote that first and forgot to re-edit my own typing.CyBrain
- "accidentally reinstalled the system "drgz
- FawnDog0
I feel for you. My 6 month old MBP died a few weeks ago right after I started a big job...awesome ! I was secure in the fact that I had a Time Capsule at home and had been backing up via Time Machine religiously. I knew I would have to reinstall software but I was o.k. with that. After receiving my new hard drive I attempting to migrate via Time Machine and most folders came up with question marks. My pictures folder showed up but said there was nothing in it. My clients folder showed but was also empty, I lost everything ! What good is Time Machine and a new computer ?..ugh
- CyBrain0
This is not working out so great. I'm not getting my Time Machine Disk to show up as an option to install from the system disk or from Migration Assistant.
Is there some trick to this? I'm going to try to boot from the Time Machine disk now.
- akrok0
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- CyBrain0
I bought a new 1 TB internal drive at Tekserve, NYC for $129. I'm going to install it tonight. Hopefully I won't have any problems with all of my completely legally obtained software.
I had Disk Warrior, but it kept crashing on me. I think the drive was a lost cause though.
- ah yeah, did you shop at
p-i_rate-ba-y. or what. lol.akrok
- ah yeah, did you shop at
- acescence0
for future reference: disk warrior, disk warrior, disk warrior, disk warrior.
though if a drive dies like that. it's best to recover what you can and toss it, it will fail again soon.
anyway, you can get a WD caviar black 500gb for less than 50 bucks.
- CyBrain0
No, I know you were joking around. I'm not too freaked out about this. I've had an external drive with all my portfolio site work die on me the week I got laid off. I had a drive die and take all my music with it.
This isn't nearly as bad.
- It'll be a lot cheaper than you think. Cheers.doublespaced
- CyBrain0
Thank you Doktor McCoy.
For now, I can work off my external drive until I get a new internal drive. I don't even know what that will cost. It was a 500 GB.- sorry, man - wasn't trying to be a smartass - 500 GB's are pretty cheap these daysDoktorDavid
- CyBrain0
From bad news to worse.
Disk Erase Failed
Disk Erase failed with the error:
POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed.
Cannot allocate memory- well, that's it - fold your tents, go have a drink or three and chill - she be dead, captainDoktorDavid
- CyBrain0
I am erasing. God help me.
- CyBrain0
Also, I just notice in Safari or Chrome that these windows can be resized with a doohicky in the lower right corner of the text field. It won't work in Firefox where I usually exist.
- CyBrain0
I've installed Snow Leopard onto my external drive and Disk Utility still has the buttons greyed out on the First Aid section. There's no option to verify, repair disk or disk permissions.
I have Disk Warrior, but it repeatedly quits every time I start it.
- oh f*ck... looks like the drive is unreadable - typically a hardware failure - sorryDoktorDavid
- DoktorDavid0
"It is not a matter of if, it is only a matter of when"
I've had numerous drives subscribe to that little anecdote over the years. Have been successful in saving quite a few too. This is bad news, sorry; save as much data as possible then put a bullet in it.
- mrghost0
i have a disc polarity issue that causes my 2006 macpro to do this sometimes. The solution that I've found is when it doesn't boot, turn it off and try again. It has taken up to five cycles before for this method to work but as long as I backup my data everyday I am comfortable with the weirdness.
it may be time to upgrade to solid state.
- Atkinson0
if you got it in the UK look at buyers rights, theres a law that protects you for around 5 years on electrical items. Apple will have to repair it for you but you should go through the retailer. I've been through this - it's all on moneysavingexpert.
- CyBrain0
I left Disk Utility running over night. It ran through my music and backup drives and found no problems. Then it finally listed my startup (internal) drive.
In the First Aid tab all the buttons are greyed out. I can however go to the Erase tab and erase the disk. There are several Volume Formats to pick from:
Mac OS Extended (Journaled) which is the default,
Mac OS Extended,
Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive Journaled),
Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive),
MS-DOS (FAT).Should I go with the default Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
Or is there something else I should try before erasing?
- Mac OS Extended (Journaled)ok_not_ok
- See if Disk Warrior can fix your issues.
http://www.alsoft.co…ok_not_ok
- ernexbcn0
I had the same issue with my 3 yeard old iMac, and it won't even let me boot through USB or DVD drive, it seems that in under certain hard drive failures the particular model I have enter into a "coma" state when the HD dies.
I read dozens of message boards with people that had the similar problem and determined it was hard disk failure (people that took the iMac to servicing). I bought a new 1TB sata drive and proceeded to open the whole thing, including removing the whole LCD panel because the drive is behind it.
With the new drive in place the iMac booted the Snow Leopard install disk with no problems and I'm using it ever since.
What I did later on was acquiring a sata box where you can put the old drive in it and plug it with USB, I ran Disk Utility on my old disk and managed to get all my user folder, but the drive was definitely fucked up, some files could not be copied and it made clicking noises.
Hope this helps.
- As I wrote in note above, the new iMacs' drives are harder to access, much easier to damage the glass.raf
- akrok0
my HD in my old G4 (867) was made 2001 and lasted 6 or 7 years. and it was used daily. i think that was pretty unsual.
anyway, always backup. cause some last only a 1 or 2. damn.