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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Pretty sure my hard drive died.
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1010416" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Good news about the Seagate. It's still under warranty. Contact them for a RMA. <a href="http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/" target="_blank">Seagate contacts</a>.</p><p></p><p>In order to boot from your Snow Leopard DVD, hold down the "Option" key as soon as you hear the POST chime. That should bring it up on the screen.</p><p></p><p>Once the machine boots, escape out of the install process and select "Utilities" "Disk Utilities" from the top menu. Click the First Aid tab and do a verify and repair of the hard drive. If it won't recognize the hard drive, that's a good indication it may have died. Since you have a backup, you don't need to worry about getting your data from the drive.</p><p></p><p>You might also want to run the Apple Hardware Test when booted from the DVD. See the following KB article from Apple. <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509" target="_blank">LINK</a></p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1010416, member: 46727"] Good news about the Seagate. It's still under warranty. Contact them for a RMA. [URL="http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/contact_us/"]Seagate contacts[/URL]. In order to boot from your Snow Leopard DVD, hold down the "Option" key as soon as you hear the POST chime. That should bring it up on the screen. Once the machine boots, escape out of the install process and select "Utilities" "Disk Utilities" from the top menu. Click the First Aid tab and do a verify and repair of the hard drive. If it won't recognize the hard drive, that's a good indication it may have died. Since you have a backup, you don't need to worry about getting your data from the drive. You might also want to run the Apple Hardware Test when booted from the DVD. See the following KB article from Apple. [URL="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509"]LINK[/URL] Regards. [/QUOTE]
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