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- 15 " MacBook Pro 2.66GHz 4GB 320GB HDD; 15" PowerBook G4 1.25GHz 2GB 80GB HDD
Hey Guys,
I was just wondering how a dying hard drive would behave. I'm asking this because my PowerBook G4 (15" 1.25GHz), which has been running perfectly till now, is having trouble starting up.
Normally, just as I press the Power button, I hear the start-up tone and the super drive clicking about (at the same time), and the hard drive whirring about 2 seconds later, followed by the white boot screen with the grey Apple logo. But recently, nothing happens after the start-up tone and the super drive's clicking - its just a blank screen! I have to switch the PowerBook on and off a couple of times to get the hard drive to start-up. And it usually happens during a 'cold start'.
I don't know if this is a hard drive issue, because once its started up, there is no problems at all! No file accessing errors, unexpected OS crashes, or anything else!!
What do you think? Time to change?
I was just wondering how a dying hard drive would behave. I'm asking this because my PowerBook G4 (15" 1.25GHz), which has been running perfectly till now, is having trouble starting up.
Normally, just as I press the Power button, I hear the start-up tone and the super drive clicking about (at the same time), and the hard drive whirring about 2 seconds later, followed by the white boot screen with the grey Apple logo. But recently, nothing happens after the start-up tone and the super drive's clicking - its just a blank screen! I have to switch the PowerBook on and off a couple of times to get the hard drive to start-up. And it usually happens during a 'cold start'.
I don't know if this is a hard drive issue, because once its started up, there is no problems at all! No file accessing errors, unexpected OS crashes, or anything else!!
What do you think? Time to change?