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Hi,
I've had my Macbook Pr 13 inch (mid 2009) for about 16 months and I've noticed it seems to make some noises when it's 'thinking' - ie when programes are being opened or pages loaded... It's not very loud, but loud enough to hear when I'm not playing music.
The sounds seem to be coming from the right hand side of the trackpad, and are a little hard to describe - they're not 'grinding' sounds, but they are a little 'crunchy'.
A friend of mine says it may be the first signs of hard drive failure, which, obviously, concerns me!
I mainly use it for internet, mail, itunes, and also a bit of music recording/production (I have the stock 160gb drive, with about 85gb used, 45gb of which is my music folder!). It had occurred to me that using iTunes and Logic a lot might be a little hard drive intensive, but that's just me speculating...
Anyway I have a genius appointment tomorrow but I'm guessing that, if there is anything wrong, they'll want a fair whack of cash to change the hard drive out - my friend says he could put a new hard drive in quite easily so I'm not too worried about that but how do I get my files back?
I use time machine to do regular backups and have all the original install disks still - would this enable me to get back to where I am now if I were to change the hard drive?
Sorry for all the questions - I'm not really that knowledgable when it comes to computers (hence why I went mac as it 'just works')...
Oh and it's the 2.26 model with 2gb ram... All current software updates too...
I've had my Macbook Pr 13 inch (mid 2009) for about 16 months and I've noticed it seems to make some noises when it's 'thinking' - ie when programes are being opened or pages loaded... It's not very loud, but loud enough to hear when I'm not playing music.
The sounds seem to be coming from the right hand side of the trackpad, and are a little hard to describe - they're not 'grinding' sounds, but they are a little 'crunchy'.
A friend of mine says it may be the first signs of hard drive failure, which, obviously, concerns me!
I mainly use it for internet, mail, itunes, and also a bit of music recording/production (I have the stock 160gb drive, with about 85gb used, 45gb of which is my music folder!). It had occurred to me that using iTunes and Logic a lot might be a little hard drive intensive, but that's just me speculating...
Anyway I have a genius appointment tomorrow but I'm guessing that, if there is anything wrong, they'll want a fair whack of cash to change the hard drive out - my friend says he could put a new hard drive in quite easily so I'm not too worried about that but how do I get my files back?
I use time machine to do regular backups and have all the original install disks still - would this enable me to get back to where I am now if I were to change the hard drive?
Sorry for all the questions - I'm not really that knowledgable when it comes to computers (hence why I went mac as it 'just works')...
Oh and it's the 2.26 model with 2gb ram... All current software updates too...