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I have killed my Cube, I think

  • 07-12-2004 4:11pm
    #1
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭


    I had the Cube mounted as a hard drive and was copying files to it to back up. The copy process got stuck, and I had to restart my PowerBook from which the files were being copied. The Cube now makes, um, grinding noises when I try to start it.

    Is it really dead?


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  • #2
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    It sounds as if the hard drive may be in trouble. Bring it to the place you bought it pronto, or failing that, Typetec in Ballymount Road (?) are nice. In the phone book.

    Incidentally, a good way to copy stuff from one Mac to another is to link them via Firewire cable, then switch them on, with T held down on the one from which you want to copy the files. Its hard drive will then appear as a Firewire symbol on the screen of the other one.


  • #3
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    A mate of mine updated os while an external drive was switched on and linked. After restart his drive gave the exact same noise. Everything was wiped to the bone.

    Take it to a pro to check the surface of the hard drive I say.


  • #4
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    luckat wrote:
    It sounds as if the hard drive may be in trouble. Bring it to the place you bought it pronto, or failing that, Typetec in Ballymount Road (?) are nice. In the phone book.
    Well, I'm in Westport.
    Incidentally, a good way to copy stuff from one Mac to another is to link them via Firewire cable, then switch them on, with T held down on the one from which you want to copy the files. Its hard drive will then appear as a Firewire symbol on the screen of the other one.
    Of course. That is how I had the Cube mounted.


  • #5
    logic1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭logic1


    Diskwarrior.

    .logic.


  • #6
    Yoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    $75 seems a lot for software that I might only need once and when there is no guarantee of it working. "All sales final."


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  • #7
    ZENER
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,163 ✭✭✭ZENER


    The simplest thing to do is insert the first system disk (assuming OS X) and boot from it by holding down the "C" key. Quit the installer that starts and from the menus start the disk utility and let it check the drive for you.

    The grinding noise could also be the CDROM drive from my experience. The hard disk is not difficult to replace in any case but the old ones contents may be gone.

    ZEN


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