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MacBook hard drive gone, where to repair?

  • 28-07-2010 12:41am
    #1
    Winters
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭


    My 2.5month old MacBook Pro's hard drive appears to have died, started getting lots of beachballs and lockups randomly and doesn't appear to boot up into OSX anymore. Just gets to the loading screen with the loading icon after the bootup tune and sits there until the CPU gets roasting warm and I have to hard power off.

    Apple care said it sounds like a hard drive issue, I have a time capsule so everything is backed up. Where is the best place in Dublin to get it repaired under warranty? (only got it in April)


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  • #2
    Ham'nd'egger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭Ham'nd'egger


    Winters wrote: »
    My 2.5month old MacBook Pro's hard drive appears to have died, started getting lots of beachballs and lockups randomly and doesn't appear to boot up into OSX anymore. Just gets to the loading screen with the loading icon after the bootup tune and sits there until the CPU gets roasting warm and I have to hard power off.

    Apple care said it sounds like a hard drive issue, I have a time capsule so everything is backed up. Where is the best place in Dublin to get it repaired under warranty? (only got it in April)

    Depending on where you are, either Typetec in Ballymount, Mactivate in Blanch/Ballycoolin or Evad at Ushers Island on the quays beside James Joyce Bridge.


  • #3
    nialler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 896 ✭✭✭nialler


    see if apple will post you out the drive (you could be waiting a week or two for the above to do it), HD can be changed in 5 mins:

    http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Unibody-Late-2008-and-Early-2009-Hard-Drive-Replacement/841/1


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