Hi Guys,
looking for a bit of advice here...
Last night my macbook wigged out and the display just froze (mouse would move and music was playing... but no display). I waited a while and in the end had to to a hard restart.
When the machine started up, or rather tried to start up I got the flashing folder icon with a question mark.
I booted from the system disk and attempted a bit of disk first aid, which failed after about 5 minutes of the machine thinking about it (i can't remember the exact error message as it was quite late). At that point I left it - I was going to see if someone could access the disk by booting it as a firewire drive so I could rescue the data.
This morning I realized that I didn't have that much data to loose after doing a back up at the end of Feb so |I thought I would try a clean install after a disk format. Only when I booted from the disk this morning the disk utility couldn't find the hard disk at all.
I'm guessing that this is a hardware failure which requires a replacement disk but before I go out and buy one I wanted to get some advice (i.e. is my prognosis correct?) and recommendations... for example I have heard that Hitachi are pretty unreliable and that Seagate are better value. I'm not really very good with the hardware stuff so any advice would be great... I only really need a max of 160GB (I'm pretty sure my old HD was 80gb and only 1/2 full) and I'm not really willing to blow the bank.
Thanks
looking for a bit of advice here...
Last night my macbook wigged out and the display just froze (mouse would move and music was playing... but no display). I waited a while and in the end had to to a hard restart.
When the machine started up, or rather tried to start up I got the flashing folder icon with a question mark.
I booted from the system disk and attempted a bit of disk first aid, which failed after about 5 minutes of the machine thinking about it (i can't remember the exact error message as it was quite late). At that point I left it - I was going to see if someone could access the disk by booting it as a firewire drive so I could rescue the data.
This morning I realized that I didn't have that much data to loose after doing a back up at the end of Feb so |I thought I would try a clean install after a disk format. Only when I booted from the disk this morning the disk utility couldn't find the hard disk at all.
I'm guessing that this is a hardware failure which requires a replacement disk but before I go out and buy one I wanted to get some advice (i.e. is my prognosis correct?) and recommendations... for example I have heard that Hitachi are pretty unreliable and that Seagate are better value. I'm not really very good with the hardware stuff so any advice would be great... I only really need a max of 160GB (I'm pretty sure my old HD was 80gb and only 1/2 full) and I'm not really willing to blow the bank.
Thanks