Hey Guys,
My buddy just gave me his black Macbook because he had a few too many problems with it and just got sick of it. He has had two hard drives go bad on him, the first one a Hitachi 160gb drive that came with the macbook, and a second Toshiba 200gb drive. I am thinking about ordering a new drive on NewEgg but wanted to get some recommendations on drives from you guys.
Also the old drive came up fine in Disk Utility when ran from the Tiger CD...
After the first boot though, the computer would just sit on the spinning pinwheel and eventually all of the icons would disappear. After that I tried installing leopard and it wouldn't get past the boot, it would just show the Apple logo on a grey screen with a spinning wheel type thing...
Any ideas? Is it just a odd coincidence that 2 hard drives have gone on this laptop or something worse that could be in the motherboard or something?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Also will any 2.5" 1.5gb/s SATA drive work in a macbook?
Thanks Again,
Mike
My buddy just gave me his black Macbook because he had a few too many problems with it and just got sick of it. He has had two hard drives go bad on him, the first one a Hitachi 160gb drive that came with the macbook, and a second Toshiba 200gb drive. I am thinking about ordering a new drive on NewEgg but wanted to get some recommendations on drives from you guys.
Also the old drive came up fine in Disk Utility when ran from the Tiger CD...
After the first boot though, the computer would just sit on the spinning pinwheel and eventually all of the icons would disappear. After that I tried installing leopard and it wouldn't get past the boot, it would just show the Apple logo on a grey screen with a spinning wheel type thing...
Any ideas? Is it just a odd coincidence that 2 hard drives have gone on this laptop or something worse that could be in the motherboard or something?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Also will any 2.5" 1.5gb/s SATA drive work in a macbook?
Thanks Again,
Mike