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- MacBook Pro | OS X 10.6.4 | 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | 4 GB RAM |
It's going on six hours I've been trying to sort this out.
Here's what's happening (and I'm sleep deprived at this point and may likely leave out some critical information).
I have a Macbook pro. I have a 1TB WD MyBook (or something) HDD usually accessed thru the USB port on my Airport Extreme. This is nice. I came home from dinner tonight with the intention of watching some television I'd downloaded, only to find that my computer was wholly incapable of opening a 350MB file from the drive. Quicktime froze, had to relaunch finder, etc. I restarted the computer and tried again. No dice. Dismounted the drive, remounted. Same. Tried different ports, firewire, different cables, etc. Repaired my internal HDD with OnyX after booting in single-user mode. Scanned both disks for errors and Disk Utility says both are working just fine. No scary clicks of death or any funky noise or anything.
I can view the file structure on the drive after it's been mounted and indexed. The files are there, but to do anything with them takes ages. I was able to open a small mp3 after about two or three minutes, and managed to copy a word document to my desktop after a little while, but my computer can't seem to handle it. I've got a 2.5 Ghz processor and 4GB of RAM. The external drive IS 97% full, but was 97% full yesterday (and the week before and the month before) and was running fine. I haven't run a defrag on it, but I don't constantly save files to it. It's mostly storage only, and I can't imagine it's THAT horrifically fragmented. Even if it were, it wouldn't suddenly run so sluggishly. It's almost 3 am where I live now (Taiwan) but I want to take it to the Apple store tomorrow and see if it's the same with other Macs. My internal drive (250GB) has 11GB free on it, but again, nothing drastically changed to cause everything to become inoperable so suddenly. I was worried the drives were (freakishly) both somehow going bad, but again, all the file structure and everything is there. I just can't seem to access it without gumming up the works. WHY? I want to try a firmware update on the external, but not until I've got everything backed up.
Other useful information... I'm running OS X 10.5.8, I have a small Windows XP partition on my internal disk. I was worried about bad sectors or something, but after scans and repairing permissions and more scans, disk utility (and Onyx) says all is well.
Would both discs being nearly full SUDDENLY cause them to be so non-functioning? Please help!
Apologies for leaving out any other critical information.
Here's what's happening (and I'm sleep deprived at this point and may likely leave out some critical information).
I have a Macbook pro. I have a 1TB WD MyBook (or something) HDD usually accessed thru the USB port on my Airport Extreme. This is nice. I came home from dinner tonight with the intention of watching some television I'd downloaded, only to find that my computer was wholly incapable of opening a 350MB file from the drive. Quicktime froze, had to relaunch finder, etc. I restarted the computer and tried again. No dice. Dismounted the drive, remounted. Same. Tried different ports, firewire, different cables, etc. Repaired my internal HDD with OnyX after booting in single-user mode. Scanned both disks for errors and Disk Utility says both are working just fine. No scary clicks of death or any funky noise or anything.
I can view the file structure on the drive after it's been mounted and indexed. The files are there, but to do anything with them takes ages. I was able to open a small mp3 after about two or three minutes, and managed to copy a word document to my desktop after a little while, but my computer can't seem to handle it. I've got a 2.5 Ghz processor and 4GB of RAM. The external drive IS 97% full, but was 97% full yesterday (and the week before and the month before) and was running fine. I haven't run a defrag on it, but I don't constantly save files to it. It's mostly storage only, and I can't imagine it's THAT horrifically fragmented. Even if it were, it wouldn't suddenly run so sluggishly. It's almost 3 am where I live now (Taiwan) but I want to take it to the Apple store tomorrow and see if it's the same with other Macs. My internal drive (250GB) has 11GB free on it, but again, nothing drastically changed to cause everything to become inoperable so suddenly. I was worried the drives were (freakishly) both somehow going bad, but again, all the file structure and everything is there. I just can't seem to access it without gumming up the works. WHY? I want to try a firmware update on the external, but not until I've got everything backed up.
Other useful information... I'm running OS X 10.5.8, I have a small Windows XP partition on my internal disk. I was worried about bad sectors or something, but after scans and repairing permissions and more scans, disk utility (and Onyx) says all is well.
Would both discs being nearly full SUDDENLY cause them to be so non-functioning? Please help!
Apologies for leaving out any other critical information.