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hard drive problem with 24" iMac
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<blockquote data-quote="zacster" data-source="post: 1299798" data-attributes="member: 17931"><p>Buy a new drive. You can't trust a drive once it starts to fail like that. My hard drive was making a clicking sound and would not mount on boot. When I booted from my install DVD I couldn't see the drive. I bought a new disk and before I went to install it I booted again from the install disk and somehow the old hard drive reappeared. I did the verify and it checked out OK. </p><p></p><p>I still didn't trust it and installed the new drive instead. Replacing a hard drive in an iMac is not such an easy thing, but it did work when it was all done. I didn't just install a hard drive either, I put an SSD inside and that thing just flies. If you are going to open up your iMac, put one of these in. Use an external drive to store your videos/music. Photos will load much faster from an SSD, but you wouldn't want to put too many on it. Video and music all run much slower than hard drive speed in real time so speed isn't important with these unless you are also editing/transcoding them. </p><p></p><p>I hope you have a backup.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zacster, post: 1299798, member: 17931"] Buy a new drive. You can't trust a drive once it starts to fail like that. My hard drive was making a clicking sound and would not mount on boot. When I booted from my install DVD I couldn't see the drive. I bought a new disk and before I went to install it I booted again from the install disk and somehow the old hard drive reappeared. I did the verify and it checked out OK. I still didn't trust it and installed the new drive instead. Replacing a hard drive in an iMac is not such an easy thing, but it did work when it was all done. I didn't just install a hard drive either, I put an SSD inside and that thing just flies. If you are going to open up your iMac, put one of these in. Use an external drive to store your videos/music. Photos will load much faster from an SSD, but you wouldn't want to put too many on it. Video and music all run much slower than hard drive speed in real time so speed isn't important with these unless you are also editing/transcoding them. I hope you have a backup. [/QUOTE]
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