I'VE GOT A CORRUPTED HDD...

Lone Wolf wrote:

AND unfortunately it's in the sector that it boots up from !!!

SO, until I replace this hard drive, I'm having an erratic and unreliable compootah on my hands here ~ so that may mean me occasionally disappearing for days on end, if it gets much worse..

OR crashes completely.


AND ~ before veya says that it's all my fault for using Apple computers,  I would just like to add that Apple doesn't make their own HDDs, but buys them off the same OEM suppliers, like Hitachi and SATA, that the other manufacturers buy theirs from..

veya_victaous wrote:And Wolf

I buy mine from Western Digital or Seagate
BIG difference is still the ability to make your own

veya_victaous wrote:
if you had windows you could just put in the Disk and Repair

I think KD is right but buggered if i'd know how you work out what is Actually in your computer if you have an apple

veya_victaous wrote:
if you had windows you could just put in the Disk and Repair

I think KD is right but buggered if i'd know how you work out what is Actually in your computer if you have an apple

korban dallas wrote:

Lone Wolf wrote:

AND unfortunately it's in the sector that it boots up from !!!

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But veya`s not wrong

don`t know anything about the apple systems but go to the HD drives manufactures web site (if you can ) and download there disk tools might be able to map out what sounds like bad blocks

Ben_Reilly wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:And Wolf

I buy mine from Western Digital or Seagate
BIG difference is still the ability to make your own

You know, I used to swear by Seagate until I bought a 2T one recently to hold my photos and it started to click ominously while writing a large batch of files.

It seems like it recovered okay and I didn't lose much (maybe some really old stuff) but I'm having trouble trusting it now ...

veya_victaous wrote:so who made the HDD?
does apple give you a disk to reinstall OS from if you were to get the HDD replaced?

I'd have pulled it open and read the sticker But I do build my own so no sealed box to worry about.

Yes, it will fit. Any 3.5 " SATA drive will work.

Lone Wolf wrote:
  UPDATE: Last week I replaced the Optical [DVD/CD] drive with a second internal drive, to give my laptop 2 internal drives...

THEN, on Friday, I swapped out the old original (and sick..) HD with a much faster Solid State Drive ['SSD'] that runs nearly 20 times faster (!) than a standard HD ~ I will use this as the Start-up Disk once I have all of the System files cloned onto it and working properly.
THE original HD was then placed into a new case - giving me a second external drive = 4 HDs in total when they're all connected..

IF repairing the original HD and isolating the bad setors waa Stage 1, the above two steps were Stages 2 and 3;  so I'm now at Stage 4 - getting the O/S, bacups and updates sorted to give me better efficiency..

STAGE 5 will be extra RAM and a better battery; while Stage 6 (probably next year sometime..) will include more external storage. I reckon by that stage, I would have saved a motza on the cost of a new computer..

Lone Wolf wrote:

I think the original HD is about 18% gone, so far...

I've got that HD isolated outside of the computer now, in it's own enclosure. In a few weeks, or months (when I have some more spare cash..) I'll replace it with a new 2TB HD - giving me a good external. backup.

I WAS going to increase the RAM, then add a second internal drive, then a new HD to replace the original. THIS drive starting to break down turned those plans on their head..