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- '09 27" iMac, '08 MacBook Pro, 32g iPhone 3Gs, 160g iPod Classic, 40g iPod, 16g (mod) iPod Mini
3 years ago I upgraded my early 2008 MBP with a 750g Seagate Black HDD... Worked well. For the past several months my MBP has been running very hot, even when it was just at idle... I was suspicious that there was some kind of malware or virus, but the activity monitor did not give me any info... The HDD crashed last week (efforts to repair disc and permissions from the recovery partition were fruitless, verbose mode start up showed I/O failure) and I put in my old HDD (a 320g from 3 years ago) and it still works fine. The MBP no longer runs hot!!
So, very hot MBP and a premature HDD failure makes me leery to just use a time machine restore because I am worried that I will just end up with a very hot running MBP and another HDD failure.
I can get at my files from the failed HDD using it as an external drive through the USB. It will be time consuming and I am sure I will have more questions.
Could I have had some type of malware or virus causing the MBP to run hot and crash the HDD that was invisible? Has anyone had this happen.
Thanx in advance!
So, very hot MBP and a premature HDD failure makes me leery to just use a time machine restore because I am worried that I will just end up with a very hot running MBP and another HDD failure.
I can get at my files from the failed HDD using it as an external drive through the USB. It will be time consuming and I am sure I will have more questions.
Could I have had some type of malware or virus causing the MBP to run hot and crash the HDD that was invisible? Has anyone had this happen.
Thanx in advance!