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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Machine turns off every 29 minutes
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 934839" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>You're probably dealing with a hard drive that has problems which is why the format is failing. Boot the machine with your latest Snow Leopard DVD and instead of trying to do a secure format, run verify and repair from Disk Utilities. There may be some bad sectors on that drive. If there is, don't mess with it any further. Replace the drive.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 934839, member: 46727"] You're probably dealing with a hard drive that has problems which is why the format is failing. Boot the machine with your latest Snow Leopard DVD and instead of trying to do a secure format, run verify and repair from Disk Utilities. There may be some bad sectors on that drive. If there is, don't mess with it any further. Replace the drive. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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