Hard drive failure

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Thursday, July 23, 2009. 1 Comments:

At July 24, 2009,  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).

 

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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