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| Thread ID: 66090 | 2006-02-10 09:34:00 | is it the harddrive? | kaliyuga (6711) | Press F1 |
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| 429100 | 2006-02-10 09:34:00 | Sometimes my mac g4 running osx 10.3 will not start up, stopping at the white apple screen with the loading icon just going round and round. it also has lots of restart crashes, even straight after a clean install. it has two hard drives, one just has stored files so can i assume the fault would be with the one that is running the operating system? There is a stuck ticking noise from one of them when not working properly I used disk utility to check the drives which reported the main one was ok but couldn't check the other. What do people think we should do? could we install the os on the second hard drive and use that as the main drive instead? |
kaliyuga (6711) | ||
| 429101 | 2006-02-10 09:46:00 | You need to stop speculating and test some more..... Alas, Apple seems to pick some dodgy old brands/models to use for their drives. Try the Apple Hardware test CD (or the Techtool Pro one) and give it a full test (although I think they are just rubber stamping tests). If you have Diskwarrior give that a go. But personally I like to remove the drive and test them with PC tools (such as Seatools or Western Digitals ones). But if you have a warranty stop before doing that and just ring whoever sold you the system/hard drive. I have heard the ticking noise before and yep you hard drive is dead........(also evidenced by the "spinning gears" you are seeing...). It explains your crashes too. I've hard these drives go "Sick" before finally dying completely (get the data off them now). |
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| 429102 | 2006-02-12 00:16:00 | [QUOTE=gibler] But personally I like to remove the drive and test them with PC tools (such as Seatools or Western Digitals ones) . Ok I went to major geeks and downloaded an iso file of seatools . majorgeeks . com/download2858 . html," target="_blank">www . majorgeeks . com this is apparently a bootable cdrom do I have to remove the harddrive(s) from the macg4 and put it into a PC to test it? or will this bootable cdrom work on the g4? and would this conclusively confirm or deny the fault being with the harddrive I have little clue so any help as to what to do next appreciated PS i used the apple hardware test/diagnostic disc and it didn't seem to test the harddrive at all so that was no use |
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