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iMac Damaged?
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<blockquote data-quote="sjfootballer01" data-source="post: 1774561" data-attributes="member: 206009"><p>I was watching a video on my iMac and bumped the top of my computer with my hand so that it shook the computer. I'm concerned I could have damaged the computer in some way, probably most likely the hdd. I have quite a lot of video files I haven't had change to back up yet and I'm also concerned that I've caused some of them to become corrupt because of like a head crash or something. I have several questions I'm hoping people can help with.</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Did I likely cause any physical damage to the computer?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Did this likely shorten the life of the HDD/computer?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Did I likely corrupt files or cause data loss or something?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How can I check for physical damage to the HDD?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How can I check for corrupt files?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Will Disk Utility Verify Disk tell me if there is physical damage or corrupt files?</li> </ol><p></p><p></p><p>It's a PPC G5 iMac stuck at 10.5.8 so I can't really run a lot of software. I did run Verify Disk in Disk Utility and that didn't give me any errors, but I really don't understand what that actually does.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sjfootballer01, post: 1774561, member: 206009"] I was watching a video on my iMac and bumped the top of my computer with my hand so that it shook the computer. I'm concerned I could have damaged the computer in some way, probably most likely the hdd. I have quite a lot of video files I haven't had change to back up yet and I'm also concerned that I've caused some of them to become corrupt because of like a head crash or something. I have several questions I'm hoping people can help with. [LIST=1] [*]Did I likely cause any physical damage to the computer? [*]Did this likely shorten the life of the HDD/computer? [*]Did I likely corrupt files or cause data loss or something? [*]How can I check for physical damage to the HDD? [*]How can I check for corrupt files? [*]Will Disk Utility Verify Disk tell me if there is physical damage or corrupt files? [/LIST] It's a PPC G5 iMac stuck at 10.5.8 so I can't really run a lot of software. I did run Verify Disk in Disk Utility and that didn't give me any errors, but I really don't understand what that actually does. Thanks [/QUOTE]
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