Hello,
I've been using this forum for years to solve all my iMac problems.
So first of all, I'd like to say that you guys are awesome. truly awesome.
My girlfriends iMac (late 2006, 20inch, 250GB, 3GB RAM) crashed last week, and I have done absolutely everything to try and fix it.
I've erased and reformatted the disk numerous times, tried re-installing Snow Leopard and even Leopard from DVD, and from USB. I've zero'd the hard drive three times, and have even swapped the RAM to ensure it wasn't the RAM which was faulty.
Nothing works. i can install Leopard and get it running, but it's really buggy and usually won't start up the second time I turn it on. it will come up with either a question mark, or will just keep restarting. Now Leopard won't even install properly.
I tried using Disk Warrior to rebuild the Directory, and long story short Disk Warrior said it can't replace the Directory because it's WRECKED, and said it will get worse over time. Tech Tool said that the Imac had 136 Bad Blocks, but zeroing the disk didn't change anything.
So i've concluded that it must be the internal hard drive which is broken, so i'm about to purchase a new one. But I thought I would just run this problem by you guys, incase anyone here has had a problem like this, and can give me a diagnosis which is different to mine.
Thank you in advance for any help you might have.
Micah.
I've been using this forum for years to solve all my iMac problems.
So first of all, I'd like to say that you guys are awesome. truly awesome.
My girlfriends iMac (late 2006, 20inch, 250GB, 3GB RAM) crashed last week, and I have done absolutely everything to try and fix it.
I've erased and reformatted the disk numerous times, tried re-installing Snow Leopard and even Leopard from DVD, and from USB. I've zero'd the hard drive three times, and have even swapped the RAM to ensure it wasn't the RAM which was faulty.
Nothing works. i can install Leopard and get it running, but it's really buggy and usually won't start up the second time I turn it on. it will come up with either a question mark, or will just keep restarting. Now Leopard won't even install properly.
I tried using Disk Warrior to rebuild the Directory, and long story short Disk Warrior said it can't replace the Directory because it's WRECKED, and said it will get worse over time. Tech Tool said that the Imac had 136 Bad Blocks, but zeroing the disk didn't change anything.
So i've concluded that it must be the internal hard drive which is broken, so i'm about to purchase a new one. But I thought I would just run this problem by you guys, incase anyone here has had a problem like this, and can give me a diagnosis which is different to mine.
Thank you in advance for any help you might have.
Micah.