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<blockquote data-quote="Head_Unit" data-source="post: 1000321" data-attributes="member: 135495"><p>"I can really hear it whirring & grinding away" sounds like the hard drive or at least the files are corrupted/damaged. I'm not an expert, it could be something else, but it shouldn't be super noisy.</p><p></p><p>Can you remove the hard drive into an external enclosure, mount it to someone else's machine, and run a Disk Utilities scan?</p><p></p><p>Did you get the Apple Care (you should, say folks I know who repair and my friend at the Apple store-any fix is like $500 otherwise, all modular stuff inside)? Is the machine still under warranty?</p><p></p><p>If it was me, and nobody offered another idea, I would probably pull out the drive. I would replace the internal drive. I used </p><p>Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD10EACS</p><p>but would go bigger probably. Search Apple Knowledge Base for how to change the drive-they actually have specific instructions, unbelievable, bless you Apple. To format, the drive must be internal basically. There was also some stupid little setting I don't remember, so if you decide to do this, post another thread.</p><p></p><p>Then put the original drive in an external case. Get your files off it, hopefully readable and if not that's another story, you would need recovery software. Presuming the drive isn't physically bad, reformat and use as a backup drive.</p><p></p><p>GOOD LUCK!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Head_Unit, post: 1000321, member: 135495"] "I can really hear it whirring & grinding away" sounds like the hard drive or at least the files are corrupted/damaged. I'm not an expert, it could be something else, but it shouldn't be super noisy. Can you remove the hard drive into an external enclosure, mount it to someone else's machine, and run a Disk Utilities scan? Did you get the Apple Care (you should, say folks I know who repair and my friend at the Apple store-any fix is like $500 otherwise, all modular stuff inside)? Is the machine still under warranty? If it was me, and nobody offered another idea, I would probably pull out the drive. I would replace the internal drive. I used Western Digital Caviar Green 1 TB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 16 MB Cache, 5400 RPM SATA II WD10EACS but would go bigger probably. Search Apple Knowledge Base for how to change the drive-they actually have specific instructions, unbelievable, bless you Apple. To format, the drive must be internal basically. There was also some stupid little setting I don't remember, so if you decide to do this, post another thread. Then put the original drive in an external case. Get your files off it, hopefully readable and if not that's another story, you would need recovery software. Presuming the drive isn't physically bad, reformat and use as a backup drive. GOOD LUCK! [/QUOTE]
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