Spinning ball, hard drive, macbook pro
Dear Experts
I have mid 2009 Macbook pro (2.66 Ghz). I am frequently running into spinning ball that freezes my mac even for opening Safari, iPhoto etc. I am user of CPU demending softwares. Here is what I did till now
1. Free space on HDD is 78 GB (out of 320 GB HDD)
2. Ran Disk utility --> verified.
3. SMART status is OK.
4. Fixed all permissions.
5. Ran disk tool pro--> SMART status OK
6. Fixed bad alias
7. Removed all cache, junk, trash with CleanMyMac.
However, problems is persisted. I ran a bad sector check on disk tool pro and it shows all time that scan for bad sectors is failed while rest of the tests passed. I wonder whether my HDD is failing or what? I have already backed up on Time Machine.
Any experts has comments/suggestions? That will be of great help.
Thanks
Sai
What you describe seems indicative of hard drive failure. You did yourself no favor, however, by running "CleanMyMac" which may have deleted some very important files.
I would recommend doing a full and complete reinstallation of everything. If you still have the 'beachballing' then I would try replacing the drive.
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2: Apple_CoreStorage 501.8 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s3
4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 124.0 GB disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 115.5 GB disk0s5
6: Linux Swap 8.5 GB disk0s6
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1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 249.2 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
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/dev/disk3
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1: DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL 8.3 GB disk3s1
/dev/disk4
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Password:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=750156374016; sectorsize=512; blocks=1465149168
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 980102336 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
980511976 262144 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
980774120 792
980774912 242186240 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1222961152 225603584 5 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
1448564736 16582656 6 GPT part - 0657FD6D-A4AB-43C4-84E5-0933C84B4F4F
1465147392 1743
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1465149167 1 Sec GPT header
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gpt show: disk1: mediasize=250059350016; sectorsize=512; blocks=488397168
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1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
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40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 486717952 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
487127592 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
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Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 0 0 1 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>
2: DA 25 127 15 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 980102336] <Unknown ID>
3: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980511976 - 262144] HFS+
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 980774912 - 242186240] HPFS/QNX/AUX
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Disk: /dev/disk1 geometry: 30401/255/63 [488397168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 488397167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
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2009-12-19 13:02:33 -0800: ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors".
2009-12-19 13:02:33 -0800: Repaired "System/Library/Keychains/X509Anchors".
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2009-12-19 13:03:12 -0800: Repaired "private/etc/hostconfig".
2009-12-19 13:03:16 -0800:
2009-12-19 13:03:16 -0800: Permissions repair complete
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4) A second WDC drive used for audio files.
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The G4 is probably about seven years old and has worked well for what I need.
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I would like to generate editable pdf with Oracle Reports. That means I need clickable check boxes in the output. Any suggestions or hints? Thanks in advance. Uwe
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Hi. I have OSB service to route asynchronous (request-callback) service. When I test OSB service I see that inbound message is transformed well and service is invoked. Also I see fault <con:fault xmlns:con="http://www.bea.com/wli/sb/context">