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hard drive problem with 24" iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="kylecoster" data-source="post: 1299368" data-attributes="member: 215733"><p>I have a three or four year old 24" iMac running OS X 10.5.8. Last night as I was using it I noticed some odd sounds coming from within the computer. It sounded like small parts moving around. Probably not the optical drive and not something I've ever heard before. I was on skype with someone at the time and he commented on it as well. The noise was intermittent for a few minutes and then stopped. It worried me but I didn't think too much of it. I put the computer to sleep and went to bed about an hour later. The next day I started it up and everything was still working fine. This time I shut it down completely before leaving the house. When I got back and started it up again, everything was lagging very heavily. Start up taking forever, actions delaying, applications not responding, etc. I was finally able to get Onyx open. One of it's initial checks told me that the disc needed some kind of repair and that I should boot with the OS X install disc and try reinstalling the OS. I did that and chose to reinstall while keeping old files. That failed right off because of a problem with the disc. The disc is totally fine, not a scratch on it. After that it wouldn't boot at all. Just gray screen and eventually turning off. I took a break and have it booted now with the same lag problems. Disk Utility is open and I've tried verifying the disc. Here are the errors it gave:</p><p></p><p>"Performing live verification.</p><p>Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.</p><p>Checking Extents Overflow file.</p><p>Checking Catalog file.</p><p>Invalid node structure</p><p></p><p>The volume needs to be repaired.</p><p>Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."</p><p></p><p>The "repair disc" button is still grayed out. So right now I'm attempting to repair permissions to see if that does anything. Do any of you have any idea what could be wrong and what my next step should be? Sorry for the long post and I appreciate any advice you might have to offer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kylecoster, post: 1299368, member: 215733"] I have a three or four year old 24" iMac running OS X 10.5.8. Last night as I was using it I noticed some odd sounds coming from within the computer. It sounded like small parts moving around. Probably not the optical drive and not something I've ever heard before. I was on skype with someone at the time and he commented on it as well. The noise was intermittent for a few minutes and then stopped. It worried me but I didn't think too much of it. I put the computer to sleep and went to bed about an hour later. The next day I started it up and everything was still working fine. This time I shut it down completely before leaving the house. When I got back and started it up again, everything was lagging very heavily. Start up taking forever, actions delaying, applications not responding, etc. I was finally able to get Onyx open. One of it's initial checks told me that the disc needed some kind of repair and that I should boot with the OS X install disc and try reinstalling the OS. I did that and chose to reinstall while keeping old files. That failed right off because of a problem with the disc. The disc is totally fine, not a scratch on it. After that it wouldn't boot at all. Just gray screen and eventually turning off. I took a break and have it booted now with the same lag problems. Disk Utility is open and I've tried verifying the disc. Here are the errors it gave: "Performing live verification. Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. Checking Extents Overflow file. Checking Catalog file. Invalid node structure The volume needs to be repaired. Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed." The "repair disc" button is still grayed out. So right now I'm attempting to repair permissions to see if that does anything. Do any of you have any idea what could be wrong and what my next step should be? Sorry for the long post and I appreciate any advice you might have to offer. [/QUOTE]
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