HDD won't show!?

da9920 · da9920 #1 (**permalink**)

01-07-2010, 12:46 PM

tried almost everything possible, and matter seems to have gotten from bad to worse. Ran Diskwarrior4 ... took like 3 days and 3 days later, decided to to a hard restart.

after hard restart, DW can no longer find the HD.

I don't think my HD is physically failing, so I'm thinking to remove the HDD from My Mac24 and replace it w/ a new one....I saw demo video online...seems easy enought but have to be extreamly careful.....

Anyone has experience taking the Imac apart? Any suggestions??

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #2 (**permalink**)

01-07-2010, 03:16 PM

Depends on the model iMac which you do not provide and your HD seems to be dead, not failing. If you do a Google on take apart for your model iMac you will find tutorials. As a suggestion before taking the iMac apart, pop in disc one of the original install discs that came with the machine and run Apple Hardware Test extended. It will diagnose problems.

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da9920 #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 06, 2010 Posts: 3	01-07-2010, 12:46 PM tried almost everything possible, and matter seems to have gotten from bad to worse. Ran Diskwarrior4 ... took like 3 days and 3 days later, decided to to a hard restart. after hard restart, DW can no longer find the HD. I don't think my HD is physically failing, so I'm thinking to remove the HDD from My Mac24 and replace it w/ a new one....I saw demo video online...seems easy enought but have to be extreamly careful..... Anyone has experience taking the Imac apart? Any suggestions??
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harryb2448 #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,065 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	01-07-2010, 03:16 PM Depends on the model iMac which you do not provide and your HD seems to be dead, not failing. If you do a Google on take apart for your model iMac you will find tutorials. As a suggestion before taking the iMac apart, pop in disc one of the original install discs that came with the machine and run Apple Hardware Test extended. It will diagnose problems.
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