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Apple Computing Products:
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Unable to boot, tried a few things but would like some opinions from others.
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1594901" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>The old HDD may not be completely kaput if you want to try using it for non-critical data and it may have ended up with a super corrupt directory that Disk Utility is unable to fix.</p><p></p><p>If you can get it to mount using a USB-SATA adapter or a SATA enclosure with Disk Utility, use DU to partition and format the drive but don't bypass the option to do a single zero out pass.</p><p></p><p>Doing so will wipe the drive clean as well as making sure that any bad sectors won't be used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1594901, member: 175845"] The old HDD may not be completely kaput if you want to try using it for non-critical data and it may have ended up with a super corrupt directory that Disk Utility is unable to fix. If you can get it to mount using a USB-SATA adapter or a SATA enclosure with Disk Utility, use DU to partition and format the drive but don't bypass the option to do a single zero out pass. Doing so will wipe the drive clean as well as making sure that any bad sectors won't be used. [/QUOTE]
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