Has the hard drive died?
Hello,
My daughter's 2006 intel IMac has problems. Last night, it had frozen, and was playing a strange sound. When I forced a shut down, on restart the strange sound came again, and the folder and question mark icon - showing that the start-up drive is missing - came up. Pressing Alt to try to select start-up wouldn't work.
This morning I managed to start up from an external firewire drive, intending to tinker with the drive in disk utility. However, disk utility won't find the drive. What it does find is a mystery 7.5 GB drive (hard drive icon) called WDC ROM MODEL-HAWK----Media. Disk Utility won't let me verify, repair or erase this mystery drive. The 'missing' hard drive is 250GB.
Drive Genius, Onyx and Idefrag don't 'see' either the proper hard drive or the mystery Hawk drive either.
I've done my best to record the weird sound. This sound starts up immediately I press the power on button which seems weird. Then the 'normal' start-up chime sounds, but the weird sound continues and the iMac fails to find the usual start-up drive. I've uploaded the sound (not good quality I'm afraid) here:
http://web.me.com/lucy.banwell/Site/ImacHDproblem.html
The chime comes in a little loud - sorry.
Has the hard drive died, do you think?
Thanks for any help
Lucy
It does sound like the HD is gone and you have done a pretty good job of trouble shooting it. I'd recommend starting with the install disc that came with the computer and running Disk Utility from that and 1. see if it can see the internal drive and 2. repair that it if it can been seen. If it can't be seen then I think your assessment is right on and it's time to replace it.
Regards,
Roger
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