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Hey:
I just had a weird, forced restart a few minutes ago. My MacBook was sleeping with the USB HD up and running. When I "woke it up" and I tried to play a mp3 file in iTunes the little spinning rainbow appeared
(My entire mp3 library is on my USB HD.) So I forced quit iTunes and tried accessing my library through Finder... same result 
I then thought of unmounting my USB HD through Disk Utility and again my system froze 
At this point, my only solution was to force shutdown the machine which I did. And on restart the start-up sound repeatedly played, like a scratched CD at least a dozen times, in front of a blank screen before the Apple logo appeared. Tiger (10.4.11) then quickly started without a problem and the USB HD automatically mounted. Everything seems fine, however I'd just like to know what happened. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
I just had a weird, forced restart a few minutes ago. My MacBook was sleeping with the USB HD up and running. When I "woke it up" and I tried to play a mp3 file in iTunes the little spinning rainbow appeared
(My entire mp3 library is on my USB HD.) So I forced quit iTunes and tried accessing my library through Finder... same result I then thought of unmounting my USB HD through Disk Utility and again my system froze At this point, my only solution was to force shutdown the machine which I did. And on restart the start-up sound repeatedly played, like a scratched CD at least a dozen times, in front of a blank screen before the Apple logo appeared. Tiger (10.4.11) then quickly started without a problem and the USB HD automatically mounted. Everything seems fine, however I'd just like to know what happened. Any suggestions? Thanks.
