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Do I need a new hard drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="jerH" data-source="post: 1210934" data-attributes="member: 97929"><p>Thanks....I get the difference, just making sure I wasn't missing some distinction that is unique to the Apple world. I've spent many an hour building/troubleshooting/rebuilding PC and Linux machines, but frankly with Macs they've been stable enough (which is why I switched to them) that I've never had to delve that far....chscag's comment that "the format command is separate in Disk Utility" is what threw me, as I couldn't find a distinct "format" command and, as I commented earlier, I thought "erase" ran rather quickly.</p><p></p><p>But yeah, this is the second hard drive to go bad on me (the first was in an older macbook and I finally confirmed the number of bad sectors on the disk by booting it from a Linux thumb drive so I could access something more than Disk Utility). I've also had to replace the trackpad on my wife's newer macbook (not the one the hard drive failed on), which failed two weeks after the warranty expired, and the DVD drive on an iMac. I've also had to replace the rubber pad on the bottom of the macbook after it warped (which is asthetic, not functional, but still annoying), the power supply on the old macbook, and the keyboard on the iMac...none of which I considered "major" but again, not impressive.</p><p></p><p>So while I've got you here...what kind of "periodic maintenance" do you recommend? I run mac janitor occassionally and keep up with software updates. I don't reboot very often....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jerH, post: 1210934, member: 97929"] Thanks....I get the difference, just making sure I wasn't missing some distinction that is unique to the Apple world. I've spent many an hour building/troubleshooting/rebuilding PC and Linux machines, but frankly with Macs they've been stable enough (which is why I switched to them) that I've never had to delve that far....chscag's comment that "the format command is separate in Disk Utility" is what threw me, as I couldn't find a distinct "format" command and, as I commented earlier, I thought "erase" ran rather quickly. But yeah, this is the second hard drive to go bad on me (the first was in an older macbook and I finally confirmed the number of bad sectors on the disk by booting it from a Linux thumb drive so I could access something more than Disk Utility). I've also had to replace the trackpad on my wife's newer macbook (not the one the hard drive failed on), which failed two weeks after the warranty expired, and the DVD drive on an iMac. I've also had to replace the rubber pad on the bottom of the macbook after it warped (which is asthetic, not functional, but still annoying), the power supply on the old macbook, and the keyboard on the iMac...none of which I considered "major" but again, not impressive. So while I've got you here...what kind of "periodic maintenance" do you recommend? I run mac janitor occassionally and keep up with software updates. I don't reboot very often.... [/QUOTE]
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