Frustrated Beyond Belief

I am extremely frustrated with Adobe, beginning with selecting a screen name. Why don't you give suggestions after the 10th failure?
I have been receiving messages that I need to update adobe reader, Flash player that supports adobe reader and Acrobat. Every time I have tried (for weeks now), I don't have success. When I hit proceed to download page command I receive a 3D data parsing error has occured message, but no instructions on how to fix error to complete download. If i didn't need the download to read a certain pdf file I would have given up by now.
Wayne

Hello,
I just came across this today and I had the same error as you did at our company. We actually reset our computers and did a fresh install and it was fixed. If you havent tried this I would give it a try. Usually Adobe is as solid as it comes. Good luck!
Tommy
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To change your Apple ID, follow these steps:
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brownrecluse,
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301920
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Going a little nuts here. Back in February, I decided that I needed a bigger hard drive. I ordered up a 500GB 5400rpm drive from Other World Computing. They sent me the enclosure kit along with it. I cloned my existing drive, and after cloning I swapped one drive for the other. Everything was fine for a little over a month. I started experiencing freezing and slowdowns while browsing the internet, and then one day while downloading some digital media, everything froze up. I had to turn the machine off to un-freeze it. When I tried to boot again it wouldn't boot.
I surfed around the internet on another machine and got all kinds of voodoo suggestions for how to get the thing to boot. While I can't recall all of the things that I eventually did, suffice to say I finally got the thing booted but much of my data was scattered into all sorts of folders marked "Lost and Found". It took me weeks to retrieve my most important data. I'm sure I lost some critical stuff, I just haven't attempted to access it yet to discover it isn't there. Of course by now I'm sure you have figured out that I didn't have a backup ... shame on me, and I have (for the most part) learned that hard lesson. I was able to successfully use Data Rescue II to pull all the data off the drive but it took days.
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I attempted to use Disk Utility and it sees the drive and the partition, but it will not allow the partition to mount. When I attempt to use Disk Warrior, it will not register the drive or the partition during a disk scan. I have been running Data Rescue II for the past two days non-stop trying to clone the failed drive to a new external drive. There are times when it will run fast (copying 1 GB every 20-30 seconds) and other times where it slows down so that it copies 256 KB every 20-30 seconds) It has so far cloned 277GB of 465GB. At this rate, it will take about two more days to finish, then I have to figure out if the data is useable. I would have simply cloned my backup drive to the new drive except I had to go out of the country for two weeks, and my external USB backup drive is so bulky and needs an external power supply, so I had two weeks of important work that was not (I know, I know!!!) backed up.
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And why on earth would a drive fail in my computer, then work perfectly fine for the techs at OWC when they test out the drive?
Frustrated beyond belief, and a bit tired of carrying around clunky external hard drives.
Help!!!!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
This is a very puzzling situation. I don't know if the drives are failing or if the problem lies elsewhere, but there are some things to look at and to try.
One thing to check is the hard drive flex cable. It needs to be undamaged and well seated on the logic board. If it has a piece of Kapton tape over the logic board connector, the kapton tape should be replaced with a fresh piece.
There are a couple of things that can go wrong with hard drives. The complex software on them can become corrupted, and this might have happened to yours. The way to repair this is to boot from your system install disc and navigate to Disk Utility and then repair your startup disk, i. e. the internal hard drive. If Disk Utility finds errors it cannot repair, the perhaps a utility like Disk Warrior can. You want to repair the disk until there is nothing left to repair.
Another way a hard drive can fail is physically, and if this happens, there is no way to repair it. However, there is a utility that will enable you to see the S.M.A.R.T status in considerable detail:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32454
If you get specific errors either with Disk Utility or with S.M.A.R.T Utility, you can see if you can capture them with a photo. That would give you something very specific to show OWC as evidence that the drive itself is bad.
There is also a possibility that the SATA bus is bad and that is causing your problems. However, if that were the case, you would expect the drive to not work from the beginning instead of working for a while and then failing.
I don't know how the techs at OWC test out their drives, but I do know that S.M.A.R.T. is not supported on external drives.
Is it possible that this is a software issue? If you have a good backup on an external drive, you could try erasing and reformatting the drive and see if this brings it back to life.
When the Apple guys said the drive was fried, did they say why?
One thing you might want to consider until this issue is resolved. Get a 500 GB notebook drive and one of OWC's Mercury on the Go Firewire enclosures with the very reliable Oxford 924+ chipset. I have 2 of these--one with a 320 GB Western Digital Drive and one with a 500 GB Western Digital drive. I use these for backup. They are compact enough to fit in my computer bag and will run off of a firewire port, so no external power supply is needed.
Also, it may be worth talking to Hitache about your drive if you are having trouble with OWC. It may also be worth considering another brand--you can often get drives at good prices with free shipping from Newegg.
It does sound like you may have 2 drives that have failed. It's probably worth taking some pictures of the flashing question mark and any other evidence you may have to send back with the drive. It is probably also worth putting it into an enclosure and seeing if it works properly then. If it does, do a very careful check of the flex cable and connections.
Good luck!

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