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Do I need a new hard drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="jerH" data-source="post: 1210917" data-attributes="member: 97929"><p>As far as "reformat" versus "erase"...I can't find anything in Disk Utility that says "reformat". I did "repartition" and in the status it said it was "formatting" but there doesn't appear to be anything I could find that actually says "reformat". Is it tucked away somewhere? Don't think it matters....I tried a clean install last night and that failed as well...Oh well....guess I'll make some calls today and see how much this is going to set me back.</p><p></p><p>I realize hardware can fail, but anecdotally, I have now owned four Mac products and all four of them have experienced a major hardware failure within the first three years. That's a far worse track record than anything I ever experienced with PCs. It seems as though I've traded frequent OS crashes for less frequent but more costly hardware failures...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jerH, post: 1210917, member: 97929"] As far as "reformat" versus "erase"...I can't find anything in Disk Utility that says "reformat". I did "repartition" and in the status it said it was "formatting" but there doesn't appear to be anything I could find that actually says "reformat". Is it tucked away somewhere? Don't think it matters....I tried a clean install last night and that failed as well...Oh well....guess I'll make some calls today and see how much this is going to set me back. I realize hardware can fail, but anecdotally, I have now owned four Mac products and all four of them have experienced a major hardware failure within the first three years. That's a far worse track record than anything I ever experienced with PCs. It seems as though I've traded frequent OS crashes for less frequent but more costly hardware failures... [/QUOTE]
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