Faulty Hard Drive

Need help. HP 600-1170a Win 7 64. Diagnostics says no bootable drives detected Error code BI0HD-1 or 3. Rather than lose data I would perfer to buy a new hard drive. Existing drive ST3100528as sata 1 TB but I understand it is no longer made. What would be a suitable replacement? Are there upgrades e.g. more capacity or faster speed that will fit?. Can I replace it myself and then us recovery discs to reinstall?

Hi:
You should be able to replace the drive with any quality 3.5" Desktop hard drive. I prefer WD caviar blue or black drives myself
I would stick with the 1 TB. I'd also go with the SATA III (6.0 GB's) version--even if your controller only runs it at the 3.0 GB's speed.
The drive picked a lousy time to go out, as the prices are at least double what they were 6 months ago due to the flooding in Thailand this past October which flooded a majority of the worlds HDD manufacturing plants located there.
Here is a good site to get them from if you live in the USA. Many have customer reviews, so you can choose one that you think will work the best for you.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600003483%20600003269&IsNode...
Below is the link to the upgrading and servicing guide. Gives pictorial descriptions on how to replace the HDD.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01895538.pdf
Recovery disks should work for you. Don't go with a smaller drive as the recovery disks may not work on a smaller HDD.
Paul

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There is no download for the software. The factory software that you are looking for is called ilife. It is all of the software that would have came preinstalled with your mac on your original hard drive when you first bought it. You will have to get new software on your computer. This might actually be a great opurtunity to upgrade to Lions. Search the Lions software in the mac store and it will come up. Click add to cart and check out. The price for it is $20. I defientely recomend Lions, it has alot of new great features. Then wate for the install disk to come in the mail. when it come just pop it in and follow the step by step instructions. If you dont want to upgrade to lions however you can download the ilife package from apple.com for a small price. Hope this helps.

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If your Mac is from the age of Mac OS X 10.8.2:
How to find your Mac's model and age?
Contact AppleCare to request the prebundled iPhoto be uploaded to the Mac App Store, or the Mac App Store support.
This is just a user to user forum. This link goes direct to the Apple Store support:
http://www.apple.com/support/mac/app-store/contact.html?form=account&topic=MacAp pStoreAccountandBilling

How do I restore my itunes library after replacing a faulty hard drive?

How do I restore my itunes library after replacing a faulty hard drive?

did you make a backup of your library before replacing the HD ?
if so, how and what did you back up ?
if not, you can redownload previous purchases ☞ Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store.
if you have your media files on an iPod, check out this post by Zevoneer.

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This is a brand new factory refurbished iPod. Is there a tendency for faulty hard drives in this generation? What do I do since the iPod is out of warranty due to this iPod being refurbished from apple?
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Didn't know that; but either way, it's past three months as I was unable to format the iPod immediately when I got it for various reasons. Regardless, I'm still not sure if this is a hard drive error... But thanks, though!

Faulty hard drives and recovery sets

Regarding having a faulty hard drive (no recovery partition), if you and a friend have the same computer model you could buy a new hard drive (maybe 120GB) and clone the good one from one computer to use in the one that had a bad hard drive then make a recovery set from the clone as well as the original, I did this and it's worked.
I have two HP HDX9000 laptops of which one is slightly cosmetically damaged and its original hard drive died so Windows Vista was put on an unpartitioned 500GB hard drive which will go with the unit. I took the OS drive from the 'new' laptop and cloned it so the old one would once again have a recovery partition and created recovery discs from both.

Regarding having a faulty hard drive (no recovery partition), if you and a friend have the same computer model you could buy a new hard drive (maybe 120GB) and clone the good one from one computer to use in the one that had a bad hard drive then make a recovery set from the clone as well as the original, I did this and it's worked.
I have two HP HDX9000 laptops of which one is slightly cosmetically damaged and its original hard drive died so Windows Vista was put on an unpartitioned 500GB hard drive which will go with the unit. I took the OS drive from the 'new' laptop and cloned it so the old one would once again have a recovery partition and created recovery discs from both.

Stuck in calculating time remaining, what do i do, its my second airport time capsule that i purchased as the first had a faulty hard drive, why is this soo hard!

This is my second airport time capsule as the first i purchaed had a faulty hard drive, so now, its been a while i keep trying hoping it will work but its always stuck in 'calculating time remaining'. i thought it was my wifi so i connected directly to the capsule using an ethernet cord, bought an adaptor as i have the new macbook air (4m old) 13 inch, still not working. Help please,i am thinknig of just returning it and getting a less expeecsive and easier one to use.
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Mavericks is the pain here.
It can lose the network connection half way through a backup.
When you connect by ethernet (good to get that.. hope it is the thunderbolt to ethernet).. did you turn off the wireless.. this is important.. nothing changes if the wireless is still on.
I recommend you start over. Keep the wireless on for this part.
Stop the backup.
Factory reset the TC.
Redo the TC setup but this time use all short names, no spaces, pure alphanumeric.
I know the airport utility will suggest apple names..
Fred Blog's Airport Time Capsule.
Don't fall for it.
Use TCgen5
For wireless name use TCwifi (or if you want more control, TC24ghz and change 5ghz to TC5ghz).
Wipe the current TM setup.
Use A4 to reset it. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
With wireless off now and just ethernet connection try the backup again.
No luck manually mount the TC hard disk in finder. Go/Connect to Server.
AFP://TCname.local (replace TCname with your new nice short name.. and use the domain which is local by default).
OR
Use AFP://10.0.1.1 (Replace with whatever IP the TC uses.. but it must be static.. easy for router mode.. not so easy if the TC is in bridge mode).
The Computer will request the password.. type in whatever password you used for disk access.. by default it ithe device password. If you did not change it then default is public.
This setup has worked for other people.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5951390?tstart=0
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There are other bits that I keep forgetting..
Make sure ipv6 is set to link-local for both wireless and ethernet in the computer.
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Macbook makes chirping sound? Is it a faulty hard drive?

My late 2008 macbook's hard drive makes a pretty loud chirping sound when I open the programs Pro Tools or Adobe Photoshop. The beachball pops up and the HD "chirps" and the computer freezes for around 10 minutes and then all of a sudden it starts working again with the applications running flawlessly. I have no problems when using Firefox or Preview or browsing through my files; Which makes me think that its not a problem with the HD but maybe a problem with the programs i'm running. The HD sometimes also makes the noise when i first power the computer on but it does not freeze.
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It sounds like a hard drive issue. Try reformatting it using "Zero all data" option under "Security Options" in your Disk Utility.
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How do I retrieve files from faulty Hard Drive?

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The same applies to my copy of MS Office for Mac 2008 - I can open and operate the program from my Macintosh HD but my previously written documents are not there.
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None of my previous work is visible in Documents or anywhere else - the cupboard is bare - just as if I had never done anything.
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Hey
Been trying to figure out whether or not my new MBP's hard drive is faulty.
It's a 13" 2,56GHz (Core2Duo) with 4 GB RAM
Can you help me find out by "analyzing" these numbers?
I did this clean install and got these numbers - after the clean install, no extra software installed and no external HDD plugged in:
Uptime: 3 days
Load averages: 0,38 0,49 0,62
Page ins: 2,26 GB
Page outs: 384 KB
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See screenshot.
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What you've posted gives no indication of any problem with your hard drive. Indeed, it has hardly anything to do with your hard drive. OS X is busy managing RAM to allow all your applications to keep running at once, and that's about all that appears to be happening.
You may want to read this Apple article about the several different RAM usage states and OS X's RAM management strategies:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
It may reassure you about the normality of what you're seeing.

How do I simply move my existing OSX and data from a faulty hard drive I am replacing with a new one?

Recently I took my computer in to get repaid for a monitor display issue. While it was repaired the shop told me my hard drive was having issues. It turns out they could fix it for me but they were going to charge me $300+. I replace drives all the time at work but never for Macs. How can I go about moving all of my data from the current hard disk to the new hard disk (OS and all)? Can I simply back up the data to an external drive using time machine? I am thinking I would need to just start from scratch and install Mac OS 10.5, upgrade to 10.6, and so on.

tjk has given you the more correct answer. Use TimeMachine, CarbonCopyCloner, or SuperDuper! to make a complete backup of your computer's hard drive. This will make restoring to a new hard drive as painless as possible. Backing up only your home directly would force you to reinstall every program - sometime I prefer to avoid when possible. (All those serial numbers!)
If while attempting to backup the drive you get error messages which indicate the backup will be unusable, then retreat to backup up only the home directory.

How to change a faulty hard drive on MacBook Pro

The hard drive on my laptop is failing: overall performance has greatly diminished, the computer has slowed down, sometimes even crashing; looking at /var/ log messages, plenty of I/O error messages are building up.
Added to this, the System Information (system report) says that the Hitachi (750 Gb, 7200 rpm, model HTS727575A9E362) SATA drive is failing (S.M.A.R.T. status)
I have a 15" MacBook Pro (Late 2011).
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The computer's warranty has already expired, and have no extended coverage....I've been looking around the www for laptop hard drives in Apple retail stores, and can't find any. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Is there a faulty hard drive issue with MacBook Pros recently? (I say recent, mine was bought about a year ago)

The reason I am wondering is because previously my MacBook Pro crashed and failed to load past the white screen with the logo and a spinning disk.
So after googling the problem, fiddling about in recovery mode (which is pointless given I know next to nothing about computers), I went to an Apple Dealer
and they very kindly re-installed OS X Lion for me, because the hard drive had decided to play up.
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Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated
Additionally, a program that I have called Sibelius also plays up at around about the same time that the disk keeps crashing. Could this be the cause...?

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
As far as I know, I haven't noticed any problem with the Mid 2012 MacBook Pro about their hard disks. All hard disks fail with their use, but it looks like the hard disks you had on your Mac were defective (at least, the last one). If the hard disk was replaced recently, you should be able to take it and they should repair it for free, or at least, that's what Apple does on Apple Stores

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