Is it the Hard Disk?Or something more serious?
Recently I have had several problems with my Mini (1.47 super drive with 512mb.) It started with very very slow response time and then would sit at the start up screen for a very long time before booting up.. and then hang up on various apps for a very long time. I started by cheching the HD for errors and was getting Leaf error and other errors. I can usually get this to repair - and the mac will boot a little better but after 30 or so minutes of use.. it starts all over again. iTunes and the iPod Video no longer will Sync and agaim the hard disk needs repaired.
I installed a system on an external firewire drive to test a theory and that seemed to fix the problem for about 2 weeks.. then the problem started with it and now that drive will not repair with anything I have - Disk Warrior and of course Disk Utility. (do not have Tech Tool Pro)
Does this sound like the HD simple needs to be replaced? If so - what help is there on doing that? I have been in there before when the Super Drive stopped working and it turned out to be a simple fix and off I went with no problems for almost a year. Now this issue has arrisen. Any advice or things to try I am open to. When I boot from DVD - it comes right up - that is why I am curious if it is the HD vs mother board or ram or something else.
Thank you in advance for any help!!
With the disk utility it says the SMART status is verified. Disk utlity after repair will still say that the disk it o.k. but it still will not boot.... sits in the apple window and does not go further. Everything works well with the DVD installed (after as booting and working around and does not seem to take to long.) I did bring over my iTunes files and photos.. but everything else is a clean install. I even did the 30+ drive clean before installing. Now the Firewire drive is also having issues.. and says that Disk Utlity can not repair the drive.
I thought I read somewhere that external drives are not a good idea for running the system from so I assumed that was what caused the issue witht he bad drive. Would that still be the case? How do I check the RAM with the install disk through utilities? I am afraid I have never done that before in all my years of working with MACS. It does show up in the system info as a 512 MB RAM.....
Thank you for you advice - and I really appreciate you trying to help me out with this.. I have all about given up. I am actually using a PC right now. YUCK!!!! MY Fingers are burning!!
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Although I don't know where the database is stored, I did figure out a way to my problem as follows, but it requires that you have a reasonably recent backup of your hard disk, and also an alternative startup disk. (In my case, the backup was also bootable thanks to Superduper.)
Fortunately, I had recently backed up all the files from my internal hard disk onto an external disk. However, I had never run iCal's own "File > Back up Database..." routine.
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It looks and sounds like you are Savvy.....
You have helped others or you wouldn't have 2 bars under your name...
I assume you have backups or you wouldn't have done 3 complete wipe and reinstalls.
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Then give Snow Leopard a try all by itself with nothing of your old stuff or anything else added...
Try shutting down. Try restarting... Try Safari... etc.....
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Start migrating things over until you find a problem...
I know this may sound like it takes a long time but not really.
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Replace the hard disk has, and also have lost the OS disk.
Reset on my computer to install the program instantly,
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Thank you.If I follow you correctly, you either have or will be replacing the hard drive in your iMac. You don't have the original OS X disks nor an operating system disk. Do you have a bootable backup? Here are some steps/options:
1) If you have a bootable backup, install the hard drive, boot from the external hard drive, then use SuperDuper or CCC to copy the external hard drive to your new internal hard drive.
2) You have your old hard drive, and it's not dead. Put it into an external case and see above.
3) You don't have either a bootable backup or a working old hard drive. You can try calling Apple Support to see if they still have the original OS X disks for your system. If they do, they'll charge a nominal price for them.
4) You checked and Apple no longer has disks for your system. You can go to the used market to buy Leopard 10.5 disks. If you do, be sure and get retail black-faced disks, but don't get the black-faced disk which is an upgrade disk .... if you don't have 10.4 on your system, it won't work. Careful of gray-faced OS X disks as they are locked to the original system type they ship with. So a gray faced OS X 10.5 disk for a MacBook won't work on your iMac.
5) Another related option is to buy 10.6 Snow Leopard, if your system meets requirements. This is still sold by Apple, and in the US is available online for $29.99 from the Apple store. Snow Leopard requirements are:
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space
DVD drive for installation
6) Or you could consider Lion, via the USB stick that is sold in Apple stores. Lion requirements are:
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OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
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