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I reckon my hard drive may be packing up.
Makes a nice tapping, squeaky noise as it boots up.

Sometimes I get a folder icon with a question mark on it when I boot and it justs hangs there, or sometimes just the plain white screen.

Can still get into Leopard, eventually, and that works fine.
I just leave the iMac on all the time now.

How much do new ones cost?
And can u use generic ones, ie any laptop one?

I have a 250 gig one, so ideally it should be that size or bigger.
 
Drive is fairly cheap, having it installed will cost you about R 6-900.
 
how old is the imac? ie which one is it?
What does diskutility say about it? try run some 3rd party apps to check the drive as well.

I would recommend doing a bckup immediately just in case.
A hard drive costs what a hard drive costs, if its a SATA drive, u can stick it in. I would not try getting a laptop drive though.... u might get it to work with some effort, but why bother?

ur looking at +- 800 bucks for 500gigs, plus an hours labour to fit it if u want it done at a repair centre
 
I would suggest taking it to a repair center, remember the glass covering has to be removed with suction pads, then the LCD, replace HDD, replace LCD, wipe down continiously to remove dust particles, replace glass, install OS. 2 Hours.
 
alf101 said:
I reckon my hard drive may be packing up.
Makes a nice tapping, squeaky noise as it boots up.

Sometimes I get a folder icon with a question mark on it when I boot and it justs hangs there, or sometimes just the plain white screen.

Can still get into Leopard, eventually, and that works fine.
I just leave the iMac on all the time now.

How much do new ones cost?
And can u use generic ones, ie any laptop one?

I have a 250 gig one, so ideally it should be that size or bigger.
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What model of iMac is this?
 
thealluseless said:
how old is the imac? ie which one is it?
What does diskutility say about it? try run some 3rd party apps to check the drive as well.

I would recommend doing a bckup immediately just in case.
A hard drive costs what a hard drive costs, if its a SATA drive, u can stick it in. I would not try getting a laptop drive though.... u might get it to work with some effort, but why bother?

ur looking at +- 800 bucks for 500gigs, plus an hours labour to fit it if u want it done at a repair centre
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The iMacs use the 2.5inch drive afaik which is used in notebooks.
 
adsl3g said:
The iMacs use the 2.5inch drive afaik which is used in notebooks.
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they dont, i have seen some mods done to get a laptop drive to work...dont ask me why, but standard they use 3.5"
 
What I got
Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM61.0093.B07
SMC Version: 1.10f2
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What disk utility says after verify.
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”

Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Incorrect number of Extended Attributes
(It should be 45537 instead of 45502)
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.

Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
Verifying volume “WINDOWS32G”
** /dev/disk0s3
** Phase 1 - Preparing FAT
** Phase 2 - Checking Directories
** Phase 3 - Checking for Orphan Clusters
99850 files, 12312048 KiB free (769503 clusters)
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I fixed this before using the Leopard dvd, as u can't fix while in Leopard, and then using disk utility.

But here we go again...
 
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alf101 said:
What I got



What disk utility says after verify.

I fixed this before using the Leopard dvd, as u can't fix while in Leopard, and then using disk utility.

But here we go again...
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Have you got a copy of disk warrior?
 
bwana said:
Have you got a copy of disk warrior?
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great app, or maybe the new drive genius? its very good as well.

u can repair the drive in single user mode using the uber fix command
/sbin/fsck -fy
dont mount the volume before u do this....

Although, it does sound kinda like ur drive is on its way out.....
use diskwarrior or drivegenius to give slightly more informative results
 
bwana said:
Have you got a copy of disk warrior?
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Nope, but I'll give all these tips above a try.

If this was a windows pc, I'd say get a new hard drive.

This is my 1st Mac hardware issue, and I can't open the thing up to fix it or have a look.
 
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