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Hard drive failure

Thursday, July 23, 2009. 1 comment. 1 Comments:
At July 24, 2009, Blogger Dru Johnson said...

I had the identical problem about three months ago (ticking, flashing question mark folder, and everything). Had to get a new HD and rebuild the whole thing. Thank God for applecare (which just ran out this week).

 

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Today my macbook's hard drive failed out of the blue. While researching Clement of Alexandria, I heard the computer start making a ticking sound. Suddenly the computer froze. I rebooted it, only to discover the macbook 'gray screen of death' (which has a flashing file folder). Several hours of diagnosis later, I concluded that it was in fact the hard drive. Several more hours later, I replaced the hard drive and began to restore my files. Fortunately, most of my files were backed up in my email and on my external hard drive, but I did lose some photos, PDFs, and programs. The lesson here is, as always: backup, backup, backup.

I just hope the HD failure was not due to something serious.



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