Microphoto problem!(Hard drive, I think.

My Zen Microphoto will not get past the Creative screen and it just makes a soft clicking noise which sounds like the hard dri've. Should I send it in for warranty?

Anybody?!?!?!

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I have two hard drives on my mac 10.5.8 power pc and hear the clickking sounds of the first hard drive and think that it may be dying, can I install everything on the other hard drive also and wait for the first drvie to die before i use the other drives

I have two hard drives on my mac 10.5.8 power pc and hear the clickking sounds of the first hard drive and think that it may be dying, can I install everything on the other hard drive also and wait for the first drive to die before i use the other drives? Or, what is the best way to handle this?

I do not know what you are waiting for.
I'd make a backup of your important stuff before cloning the entire disk.
Carbon Copy Cloner will copy your startup drive to an external firewire drive. You can boot from the external drive to verify that you have a good clone. When you upgrade your existing startup drive, you can at any time boot from your external drive and go back to your existing system.
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!

Hello, can someone help me: my eMac G4 700 MHz. I can not boot it. If he starts appears on the screen, only a small "folder with a question mark." The Mac was not used 1 year. Question 1: Problem = hard drive? Question 2: Problem = PRAM battery? the What

Hello, can someone help me: my eMac G4 700 MHz. I can not boot it. If he starts appears on the screen, only a small "folder with a question mark." The Mac was not used 1 year.
Question 1: Problem = hard drive?
Question 2: Problem = PRAM battery?
the
What can I do to boot?

Restart with the Option key held down.
If the internal drive shows up, it's the PRAM battery.
If it doesn't, insert a compatible Mac OS 9 or X install disk, click the button with the circular arrow, and either repair the internal drive or install a new OS on it. If it doesn't show up in Disk First Aid(9) or the Disk Utility(X), it's either not plugged in or needs to be replaced.
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Macbook problems, hard drive crash, random shutdown, freezes

I bought my macbook used a few months ago, and it worked flawlessly until about 3 weeks ago. The system started freezing and not booting (getting folder icon instead of apple at startup). I ran drive setup and tried to repair the drive, but this did not fix the problem. DiskWarrior also could not fix it. I pulled the drive and installed a new hard drive, as I wanted a larger capacity anyways. All my problems appeared fixed for about two weeks, then similar problems began occurring. I backed up all the files I needed to an external firewire drive and attempted to reformat the new internal drive. Drive Setup says it can not reformat the drive - can't mount it and if it does, the drive disappears while in the process of formatting. I pulled the new drive and am having it replaced under warranty. I am using the firewire drive to run my computer, and this seemed to work fine for a day or two until the computer just started shutting down with no warning. Everything goes black, including the little light on the front of the computer. I have to hold down the power button for 10 seconds before it lets me start the computer back up. I had read this may be a memory issue, so I ran memtest and it says the memory is fine (I need to do it in single user mode still, however). I also tried pulling both sticks of ram. They are both 1GB crucial memory. I put each stick in by itself and tried it in both slots and was able to reproduce the shutdown issue with any ram configuration of either stick.
After all this, I realized the firewire drive was only running 10.5, so I updated all the software through software update, and it is now running 10.5.2. It seems to be working better as I have not experienced a random shutdown yet, but I'm anticipating it may start back up soon. Today, however I experienced a different problem - the screen froze on me and the only way to get anything to happen was to force a shutdown with them power button. It's restarted and seems to be working fine again for now.
I've run some logs and here's some things I've found:
When the latest freeze happened, I got this repeated over 100 times:
Apr 29 11:04:31 jon-turners-macbook quicklookd[536]: CGContextClosePath: no current point.
I've also seen this:
Apr 29 11:18:19 jon-turners-macbook kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Apr 29 11:18:19 jon-turners-macbook kernel[0]: GFX0: family specific matching fails
Apr 25 19:19:50 localhost kernel[0]: hi mem tramps at 0xffe00000
Should there be anything else I can check? I would run Apple Hardware Utilities, but I don't have the original disks, just the Leopard installer. I have Disk Warrior, but it seems strange this would happen with multiple systems and drives. I'd like to get Techtool Pro, but haven't had the money/time to order it yet.

Thanks for the replies!
Yeah, I think it's the HDD. I was just worried that the RAM was bad and corrupted the HDD or something, but given the symptoms I think you guys are right. Ordered a 7200RPM 320GB HDD off Amazon Prime...will be here tomorrow
I'll post how it goes after I finish installing it. I'm backing up as I type.
I wonder if I can fix the ir port and the sleep indicator light when I install the hard-drive. The sleep indicator light never turns off. It stays on as long as my computer is on, only turns off when I shut it down.

I need to delete a lot of duplicates on iPhoto. I just bought my MacBook Pro and was so excited I downloaded my external hard drive without thinking through the process. I now realize I had my photos doubled up. So I actually have the same library twice.

Hello All!
I am so excited about my new computer and I didn't know that my external hard drive had so many pictures duplicated on it. So I downloaded the entire hard drive. I thought iPhoto was going to be my answer, and now after reading a lot of discussions, it seems I have royally screwed up. Please help me fix this problem. I am a computer novice. An even more Mac novice. I need very simple directions. I would just start over with iPhoto, but I downloaded my digital camera with brand new photos on iPhoto and also downloaded my digital camera software on my new MacBookPro. I am afraid if I "start over" with iPhoto I will lose my digital camera pictures. I bought the Mac to finally get my pictures straight, and look at the mess I have made. I had AVG PC cleanup and used that program last night to delete duplicates from my PC. I also used it to delete duplicates from my external hard drive. I omega. I know, I know, too late huh? But I am teachable. And I now have my external hard drive fixed. But now, my question to the community is how to fix my new Mac, and my iPhoto.
Thanks,

SweetThunder73 wrote:
When you say to remove the photos out of the iPhoto folder, then import the clean single copies, I am understanding that the "original" file that the decloner was run against is now the "clean" single copies?
Ok, you've got iPhoto Library that you have imported everything into, you can't delete the iPhoto Library and start over because you have only one copy of some pictures in there, combined with a lot of duplicates.
You want all the duplicates out, but it will take you ages to do it by hand.
What you do is.
1: Right click on the iPhoto Library and "Show Package Contents"
2: You will see a folder called Originals, these are all your original photo's, copy this folder to a external drive someplace, it's your backup.
3: Select the Originals folder again and from the Finder Menu > File > Duplicate.
4: Now you will have a OriginalsCopy folder, move that OriginalsCopy folder onto the desktop area out of the iPhoto Library folder. Close the iPhoto Library folder/window.
5: Download the Decloner software and install it, use it to find all the "real" duplicates, via it's content on the OriginalsCopy folder.
6: From the Finder menu > New Folder, now send the duplicate files to that folder, so all that is left in the OriginalsCopy folder is 1 copy of your pictures, minus all the duplicates which are now in New Folder.
7: Open iPhoto and remove all your pictures in there. The iPhoto Library will update to become empty.
8: Now import the pictures from the OriginalsCopy folder, these will now have only one copy of each picture.
9: Open your New Folder, from the Edit menu > Select All and
10 From the Finder > File Menu > Open With > Preview.
Now you have one copy in your iPhoto Library and the duplicates in a New Folder opened with Preview which you can compare to make sure.
Make as many backups of your pictures as you think you need during this prcess, but eventually you only want 1 picture of all you have in the iPhoto Library.
Some pictures may be the same thing but a little smaller etc., these obviously are not duplicates, and you can weed those out by hand in iPhoto.
Good Luck.

Boot Problems- Hard Drive Damaged? Something Else?

Yesterday my MacBook Pro went to the blue screen of death after freezing for a few minutes. When I restarted it, I couldn't get beyond the apple with the spinning graphic below it. I tried resetting the SMC and PRAM, archiving and reinstalling (which hung up every time), and ultimately backed up the files I could (many generated errors and could not be copied) using Target Disk. After backing up, I did an erase and reinstall, which was successful (mostly). After getting the system running again, I attempted to update from what I think is 10.4.5 to 10.4.11. At the end of the download, it crashed, and on restart would not boot again (apple logo with random flickerings of the "no" sign).
At first, I assumed hard drive damage for the following reasons:
-Something fell and landed right over the hard drive, putting a small dent in the open case
-The files that would not copy seemed like they could have been corrupted by physical disk damage
-The hangups seem like they could be caused by the same issue
The things that worry me about this diagnosis are the fact that the erase and reinstall worked, and that the problem seems confined to boot errors (it has only successfully booted once since the first crash).
1. Can I confidently call this a hard drive failure, order one from OWC tomorrow morning overnight, and consider it solved?
2. If not, are there any diagnostic tools I can use to help zero in on my problem?
3. What, if any additional information would he helpful?
Before today's successes/failures, I was all ready to pull the trigger on a new drive (Hitachi 7200RPM 200GB). However, now I'm not so sure. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thank you again for your advice.
At this point, I am amazed to say I have it up and running and was even able to upgrade to 10.4.11, which caused one of the recent crashes. I have in fact prepared my data for "the unthinkable" (which has now happened four times in the last forty-eight hours), but this whole "working" thing is pretty creepy. (I tried to pop the top to see if the hard drive has any physical damage from the dent, but apparently the only thing harder to find in this town than a FireWire cable is a Torx T-6. I guess I'll be ordering OWC's lame eleven-piece $17 tool kit. Oh well.).
Is this normal? Can I expect another crash soon?
I think I'm going to try copying some large files to see if I can't repeat my failure. Maybe I've just been really lucky this particular time.

Macbook Problems: Hard Drive Failure or Bad Ram?

I bought a used Black Macbook several months ago. Everything was fine until recently I ran into some problems. It wouldn't boot one day at all, so I wiped the drive clean and reinstalled Snow Leopard. Once again everything was fine for a while until the same thing happened and I once again wiped and reinstalled. The first time it happened I used diskwarrior and disk utility to try and repair the drive with no luck. The weird thing is that after reinstalling I can check the disk and it verifies as ok until one day it fails.
I know that the guy I bought the laptop from upgraded the RAM and the HDD. He didn't do such a good installing the HDD since the IR port and Sleep Indicator Light don't function properly anymore. I've read that happens a lot when installing a new HDD.
So, Here are the symptoms:
Disk Failures
Erratic boot times: Sometimes only 90 seconds, sometimes as long as 13 minutes
Hang ups, beach balls in normal every day tasks
Complete system freezes during normal use
I've never had a kernel panic.
Recently when the system wouldn't boot I ran in verbose mode and it said something about error reading kernel cache Error 0x80000020
Is this definitely my HDD, or could my RAM be causing this?

Thanks for the replies!
Yeah, I think it's the HDD. I was just worried that the RAM was bad and corrupted the HDD or something, but given the symptoms I think you guys are right. Ordered a 7200RPM 320GB HDD off Amazon Prime...will be here tomorrow
I'll post how it goes after I finish installing it. I'm backing up as I type.
I wonder if I can fix the ir port and the sleep indicator light when I install the hard-drive. The sleep indicator light never turns off. It stays on as long as my computer is on, only turns off when I shut it down.

Recovering data from problem hard drive?

I have a TiBook 667MHz with what appears to be a hard drive problem. It starts to boot up fine, but at a certain point in the process it hangs for a while and then shuts itself off. Apparently the hard drive made an unusual clicking noise when the problem first manifested (I wasn't there).
Listening to the drive during the boot process, I hear normal noises for a while and then reach a point where the same rhythmic sequence is repeated over and over again. Sometimes it continues after a few rounds of that, and sometimes it shuts itself off.
If I boot it in target disk mode and connect it to a MacBook, the drive doesn't mount. I can see the disk in Disk Utility, but can't mount it there either. If I run a repair it says "Invalid Volume Header," then spends a few minutes in the "Checking Catalog file" step before failing with an error about a task failing to end.
If I start it in verbose mode, I see it stop at a message, "Invalid Volume Header," which is consistent with what Disk Utility says before it dies.
Obviously it'd be great to fix the machine entirely. However, the main goal at this point is to get critical, non-backed-up data off of it. Any idea what's going on? Is there a utility that might help fix or identify this issue? And barring that, should I take it to an Apple Store and hope they can recover the data?

So I'm not really sure what an "Invalid Volume Header" indicates, including whether it's a software or a hardware issue.
It's a software issue dealing with directory info, but could be caused by faulty hardware.
Is this something TechTool or DiskWarrior is likely to fix?
There's no telling until you try it. DW has a good description of things it can/cannot do, so I'd do some reading on their website.
I'm not completetly averse to picking up one of them in case of disk emergencies (TechTool's probably preferable, all things equal, since DiskWarrior shows no signs of going Universal) but I don't want to waste money if it's unlikely to work and I should just take it into a data recovery shop.
Even if it didn't fix this issue, I wouldn't call it a waste of money; very handy to have around when you need it, and you can never tell when that might be.
If I do need to take it in, any recommendations in the Cambridge/Boston area?
No, but there will be listings in the yellow pages and by googling. I would try to find a place that will look at the HD, tell you if they can do anything with it, and give you a cost estimate before you have to pay them anything. I think when you see the cost of the service, you'll probably want to try another utility (or two or three) before going the professional service route. Good luck.

Replaced hard drive - computer thinks it's smaller than it is

I just had my hard drive replaced by apple, and though it's supposed to be an 80 gig drive, my computer seems to be under the impression that it is around the range of 8 gigs. What's gone wrong here, and how can I fix it? I can't even re-install tiger because it thinks there's no room on the drive!

I am having the exact same problem with a 60 gig hard drive. I just recieved it from Applecare at about 10:30 this morning. Does anybody know how to fix the problem?

Boot problem / Hard drive won't spin up and folder icon shows

Hi,
Last week my ipod started giving me this problem, which started by it just stopping in the middle of a song (possibly because of lack of battery power).
When the ipod tries to boot I see the apple icon and hear the disk try to spin up for about 2 seconds. Then it gives a click, spins down, and starts the process all over again for several times until finally showing the dreaded folder icon.
When this happened last week I tried to charge using the cradle, but it didn't help. When I plugged it into the wall socket, VOILA! it worked. I went on my merry way for a week of listening, assuming the problem was all caused by a weak battery. During this week the computer was not able to mount the ipod disk.
Until yesterday, when the battery ran out in the middle of playing. The same exact symptoms occur, but this time the wall socket doesn't help. I think there was a sudden drop in power because the battery was fairly charged and then I saw it at complete zero, and I have also seen the battery icon show for a split second when trying to reset. I have of course tried as many of the 5 R's as I could do, but with no luck.
any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks,
ubloomie

If you can open up the case, you can try reviving the hard drive one last time. some people have had luck with sealing the drive in a plastic bag (to keep out moisture) and putting it in the freezer, and then firing it up.
Also you could try giving it a good sharp shock, which sometimes gets you one more spin-up.
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Tally problem: Hard drive space doesn't add up.

I'm trying to work out how my laptop computes it's 80Gb hard drive space so that i can work out what to get rid of.
If I work down the icons in the left of my finder and 'get info'
it reads:
desktop 3.7 GB
applications 6.6GB
home 43.88 GB (made up of all the others plus 9.81 GB library space plus some Kb's for folders)
documents 5.36 GB
movies 9.02GB
music 14.64GB
pictures1.29 Gb
There is 2.47 GB available
Now no matter what i do, my figures tally everything up to around 53GB. and not the 74.4GB it says i have used.
Any suggestions of where i'm going wrong?
powerbook G4 15" Mac OS X (10.3.9) 2GB memory

Hi, dabbla, and welcome to Apple Discussions. If your Powerbook thinks there is only 2.47GB of free space available on your 80GB hard drive — whether or not it's right — you need to start removing things immediately, while you still can. Don't try to problem-solve or achieve any deeper understanding first: you are in a near-emergency situation that could become a dire data-loss disaster at any moment.
If you can't make any more rational decisions about what to trash first, start with whatever is already backed up elsewhere. First to go should be anything of which you have two or more backups, then things that you've backed up once and tested the backups to be sure they're good. If that doesn't free up at least 7.5 more GB of free space, trash any very large applications or application-related sample, tutorial, or template folders that you can reinstall from original installer discs after the crisis is past. You want to be looking for files and folders that are 100MB or more in size; discarding little 3MB and 10MB files or folders will never get you where to need to go.
You must maintain at least 8GB, and preferably about 12GB, of free space on an 80GB drive at all times for trouble-free operation. With as little free space as you have now, your OS is desperately short of space for its swapfiles, your Powerbook is being slowed down significantly, and you are at serious risk of crashes and data loss as your OS, applications and documents compete for the available disk space. You may be completely unable to burn DVDs or even CDs.
It's possible that you have some directory damage that is causing your Powerbook to misreport the amount of free space that is available, but you may not be able to repair the damage until you've freed up some more, because what the OS believes may matter more right now than what is actually true. As soon as you've freed up several more GB of space on your drive, boot to your Panther installer Disk 1, open Disk Utility from the Installer menu, and run the Repair Disk routine, repeatedly if necessary, until it gives you two successive "Appears OK" verdicts. You may then find that more free space is available than was reported before. If so, good.
After that, download Onyx or MacJanitor and use it to run the Daily, Weekly and Monthly Background Maintenance (cron) tasks. That should free up a bit more space and put your house in good order. You can then proceed to back up all your unbacked-up documents, if any, to other media — a FireWire hard drive is far and away the best choice. Documents that are dormant or retired and don't need to be kept ready at hand on the Powerbook can also be backed up to CDs or DVDs (so you have redundant backups of them) before you delete them from the PB's hard drive.

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Hello, I have read all or many of the forums and I still have not been able to fix my problem
Everytime I sync w/ my computer (windows XP pro) I have to reset my Zire 71 PALM. When I go to the PALM folder on my computer, it does not have a user name identified I tried to uninstall and re-install but, the same thing happens. I tried to turn all of the conduits off except calendar, contacts and memos oh yes and to do but, the same programs keep re-installing themselves in my word to do and driving directions and then jump to you have to reset the hand held.
My hard drive crashed and this has happened since I had to retriev all of the data that I could from the crash and noted that a lot of my contact informationwas gone and older deleted contacts re-appeared, dont know if this has any bearing on the issue or not. I am sorry that I could not find my answer in the forum and I hope someone can help me.
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Hello,
Thank you for your reply however, I tried this and it did not work. The first time it did not ask me to reset the unit but, the second time I tried to sync it did ask me to reset the unit. It also re-installed all of the applications like word to go, sheet to go and street finder along with the directions that were saved to different areas.
Any other suggesstions?
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Problem Hard drive, SSD & HDD

I'm using a Macbook Pro Mid 2012, core i7; 8Gb of Ram.
About a month ago, I started experiencing hanging and constant beach balls. All programs took over 30sec to open. Taking my MBP to apple genius staff was my best bet at fixing my problem. They said they were going to format my Hard drive because an "application not updating" could be messing around with my computer. After a killer slow format of 30min, my MBP still had the same hanging problems and excessive beach balls. They said this is definitely your HDD failing we have to change it for 240$. Like a normal human I said ****** and said i'll buy a hard drive myself.
To make sure the HD was the issue, I used an old HDD from my old 2008 macbook and it worked perfectly. Surprisingly the stock HDD that was causing me trouble on my MBP did work on my 2008 MB. I then bought 2 new SSD's one crucial m500 and one Samsung 840 pro one for each of my MB's. I tried formatting them to be able to download the OS on them (on my 2012 MBP) but i kept getting an error message saying: Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed. I programmed the crucial with Yosemite on my 2008 MB and it worked fine. I then plugged it into my 2012 MBP and to find that it was hanging and having the same beach ball issues as my old HDD. In summary, all hard drives work on my 2008 MB but only the stock 2008 MB HDD works on my 2012 MBP.
Considering the hard drives are brand new and work on my 2008 MB, that means the hard drives dont have any problem.
And since my MBP runs perfectly with 1 of the HD, that means the logic board should be fine. (might be wrong)
I speculate that the SATA cable might be faulty or damaged.
I hope the community can help me because if I rely on apple, I can be sure they're going to drain my wallet.
PLEASE HELP, one love
George

You can change the SATA cable, fairly inexpensive.
You would of thought Apple would of pulled it out, and hooked it up to a working machine to verify or deny a problem with cable.

Lion wont install. My hard drive is thinks it's time machine.

I can't install lion because it says that my hard drive is used for time machine backups. What can I do?

You can easily use an external HD. If your machine has Firewire 800 that would be the fastest option. If it doesn't then a FW drive would be OK too. USB would work but would be really slow. I'd recommend any of the following:
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LaCie d2 Quadra series
G-Tech G-DRIVE series
Personally I use the LaCie's however OWC and G-Tech are terrific and I would be happy with thier drives too. All have similar build quality and features. Once you retire the iMac you could also use the drive as a backup or for other external storage.

PC with new Hard Drive now thinks my iPod Classic is Mac-Formatted.

My Hard Drive died on my PC, losing all of my iTunes songs. Fortunately, they were backed up on an external hard drive. When my hard drive got replaced on my PC, I downloaded the songs back onto the computer. I loaded up iTunes, which seems to have all of the songs on there. However, when I tried to sync my iPod Classic with iTunes, I get a message saying that:
"iTunes has detected a MacIntosh formatted iPod. You must restore this iPod before you can use it on Windows".
The songs on my iPod are more up to date than what was on my external hard drive, and I worry that restoring the iPod will make me lose everything on the iPod, plus everything that's on iTunes. Is there any way I can sync my iPod with iTunes without losing everything?

Restoring the iPod only wipes all the media from the iPod itself and resets all settings back to their defaults.
You can use a program such as XPlay to allow your Mac formatted iPod to work with your PC.
Xplay
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Hard drive I think failed? Anyone with experience?

It's a 3 + yr. old white 13" MacBook, my daughter's. One chime to start up. It only shows a file folder with a question mark on the display. I did hear a repeating clicking noise coming from the hard drive area. I'd like to know if this is probably the hard drive, anyone with experience of the same? If so, I shall order a replacement drive, any suggestions? Thanks.
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Microphoto problem!(Hard drive, I think.

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