Problem with the connection to the hard drive.

G5 Single core 1.8GHz stop working. I was told that there is a problem with the connection to the hard drive.
It boots but freezes after a few minutes and fans go full blast.....
Is this a logicboard problem, or something that can be fixed with a little work?

Hi j hallow-
Whose diagnosis declared a bad connection?
Have you opened it up and looked inside? It may need to be cleaned out.
You could install a second know good SATA drive and see what happens: Hard Drive Replacement Instructions
Luck-
-DaddyPaycheck

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I returned the XT 750 (Best Buy) after reading numerous similar reports on the net and finding that there is no firmware update for this model yet (500 GB version had similar issues which were eventually addressed in firmware). I noticed that they had a new batch of these drives made in April 2012 and the PN was different: 9JB1A1-575 instead of the older drive's -574. However when I unpacked it the label still said SM12 for firmware, so I won't bother installing it and I'll go with a regular 7200 rpm 750 GB drive (got a Hitachi drive) and delay the upgrade for a real SSD when the prices go down.

Problems with files and a new hard drive...

Hi there...
I have maxed out an external hard drive I was using to hold all my photos....
I have bought a 2 new drives with a view to backing up everything I have on file.
If I start moving files around LR then can not locate the files and they come up in red in the folders section of the programme.
IS there a way of reorganizing things without having to re import stuff?
Any help would be great....
Lee

I think I get it... (im having a dumb day!!)
I set the new h/d up and I import in essence an empty file into LR.
Then all the files I want to keep on the new h/d I drag and drop from the old h/d...is this right??
like I said Im having a dumb day...
all the help is much appreciated
Lee

Problems with itunes 10 and external hard drive

Hi
I was recently forced to change the internal hard drive on my G5 Tower, and the external hard drive where I keep my music library.
The new external drive had all my music files copied to it. I reloaded my itunes library files (that I had backed up from old computer) into my music folder and I named the new external drive as the media folder in Itunes preferences. The first time I used itunes it asked me if I wanted it to locate all files to which I pressed OK. itunes quickly found the majority of files and I cleaned up / organized the small mess left behind.
Trouble is a few problems have occurred. Firstly, itunes seems slow – there’s a sluggish pause flicking between tracks – where as before it used to snap into response. Occasionally I’m asked to locate files which I thought was a task it had already done - and every now and again when I check the external hard drive music library I find files have been moved from there album locations to ‘untitled’ folders, etc. I can only assume itunes is doing this. I’ve also noticed I can’t remove the external hard drive from the desktop without closing itunes first which never happened before.
This is getting somewhat frustrating. Can anybody advise?
Much appreciated.
K

Hi Nick,
Avoid the WD files completely, not needed & often a problem.
You need to erase the Drive, & to use it on both Format it MS-DOS/FAT32, on the Mac or PC, but will have a 4 GB filesize limit, as well as other limitations.
One option not mentioned yet is MacDrive for your PCs... allows them to Read/Write & Format HFS+, so no need to reformat it...
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

Problem with time machine after replacing hard drive

A couple of days ago i went to the apple store and got the hard drive replaced on my macbook pro. When i got home i realized i couldnt back up from my time capsule. When i open time machine the only backups i can find are from "today" and i cant find anything else. I have not deleted anything and have not got any warnings about any backups being deleted.
I then went in to the time capsule from the sidebar in finder -> data, in which i found two sparsebundles. When clicking on the one i needed, i got this message:"no mountable filesystems". And from here on i dont know what to do.
I have been reading all over the forum, but can not find the answer. Also have in mind i am NOT a mac geek and know very little about this. I just want my important files back on my mac in a way i can understand.
Any help appreciated!

MAC.sparsebundle modified 21.june 2011 and MACBOOKpro.sparsebundle modified today
MAC.sparsebundle is the one i want to access.
2011-07-05 20:02:19 +0200: Disk Utility started.
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Verifying volume “Time Machine-sikkerhetskopier”
Starting verification tool: 2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Invalid content in Journal
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-05 20:04:41 +0200: Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
2011-07-05 20:04:45 +0200: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2011-07-05 20:04:56 +0200: Checking Catalog file.
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200: Stopped by user
Verifying tool completed: 2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:23:35 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:23:38 +0200: Verify and Repair volume “Time Machine-sikkerhetskopier”
Starting repair tool: 2011-07-05 20:23:38 +0200
2011-07-05 20:23:40 +0200: Invalid content in Journal
2011-07-05 20:23:40 +0200: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
2011-07-05 20:23:43 +0200: Detected a case-sensitive catalog.
2011-07-05 20:23:47 +0200: Checking Extents Overflow file.
2011-07-05 20:23:54 +0200: Checking Catalog file.
2011-07-05 20:41:30 +0200: Stopped by user
Repair tool completed: 2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200
2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200:
2011-07-05 20:41:33 +0200:

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