Wipe Hard Drive/Fried Logic Board

How do I wipe Hard Drive clean when G4 Powerbook will not start up due to fried logic board? I can wait 3 weeks, and One to One will tell me at Apple...lol...

Or you can get this low-cost adapter:
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and not need a case. I can't begin to tell how many times this gadget has made an other wise tough job easy. Works with PATA 3.5", PATA 2.5", and SATA drives.

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Replaced Hard drive and logic board on ipod 5.5g...still get sad ipod HELP!

I've tried searching around the forums to see if anyone has had this similar problem AFTER replacing the hard drive in their ipods. Of course there are tons of people with similar issues, and the responses are always "replace the hard drive", so I'm going to see if there are any other possible issues out there that I could look into. So here's my situation specifically.
I have an ipod video 80 gig, and it seemed as if the hard drive pooped the bed on day 366 (only a slight exaggeration) after purchase, putting me right outside of my warranty. The apple store wouldn't do anything without charging me the cost of a new ipod to repair it. So, it had been sitting in my desk drawer for almost a year when I finally got around to replacing, and upgrading, the hard drive. I found a 120 gig drive on ebay, which after an email confirming my model, the seller said should work as a replacement. After installing the hard drive, I got the same exact problem that I had before. It would say to "wait. low battery", then the apple logo would show up with no back light, and then it would go right to the sad ipod face. I left it charging for a couple of hours, and it would just keep cycling through those three screens, until dying eventually after unplugging it. If I hook it up to my computer, nothing happens besides the ipod trying to charge. When I try to force it into disk mode, it seems like the ipod will reset to the apple logo screen, but it goes right back to doing the same little dance. I tried opening it and checking the cables a couple of times, and the last time, I broke the little cable clamp that holds the lcd ribbon. So...I ended up buying a replacement logic board. I installed that, hoping the logic board may have been the problem all along, and as soon as I plugged it in...same old crap. Now, in a last ditch effort, I've ordered a new hdd ribbon to see if that remedies the problem.
I realize that I should have perhaps waited a week until it comes, to see if that fixes it. But to be honest, I can't see anything wrong with the hard drive cable that I have right now, so I remain doubtful that it's going to fix anything. What I'm wondering, is if anyone has any idea if there is something that I may have overlooked, or if I might be barking up the wrong tree? Is it possible that the hard drive that I ordered was broken when I installed it? The seller (who seems to be a reputable seller on ebay, with lots of positive feedback) said that they test all of there hard drives before selling/shipping, and that there is no way that they shipped me a broken one. They also seemed convinced that the hard drive would work with my model. Is there anything other than the hard drive, or logic board that could cause this type of problem? Is the hard drive ribbon the only other possibility? Is there something software wise that I can do?
Please. Any feedback or help would be greatly appreciated. I've spent more on this thing than I could have paid for a used, but working one, and I'm about to lose it.
Thanks!

UPDATE:
Ive installed the new hdd ribbon. It seems to have gotten me a little closer to solving my problem. I am now able to get into disk mode, and if I reset it, I can get to a screen telling me to connect my ipod to itunes and restore it. However, after the restore process, it says it's resetting the ipod, and then it goes right back to telling me that it needs to be restored. I've been trying to search all the forums on the "restore loop". It seems like a lot of people have had luck changing the drive letter. My problem is, that I can't get into the disk management window. When I try to click on it, I get the "program is not responding" and the window freezes until I close it. Again, I'm using windows Vista 64.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I'll just try to keep trying, and keep looking around in the mean time.

Hard drive and logic board failure

Hi everyone,
we have been suffering from 4 dead hard drives and one logic board failure in 20-inch intel iMacs (~2007) recently and last month the logic board and hard drive of a 2010 27-inch iMac (just out of warranty) just died.
Are there any known issues with the iMacs that Apple fixes even outside the warranty?

Frank: I have a 5 month old 27" iMac and the logic board on it just died as well as I was getting all kinds of kerner errors. I have Apple Care and although the cost to replace the product was $800 I am not going to have to pay anything. I did talk to someone else who also had a logic board go bad on him but I doubt that you will be able to get it fixed without having to fork over $$$

Hard drive crashed on my MacBook pro and had to replace drive and logic board. When I connect my iPhone and try to sync I get a dialog box stating iPhone is synced with another iTunes library, erase and sync? How do I sync with iTunes without erasing?

Hard drive crashed and had to replace drive and logic board on my MacBook pro. After Install tried to sync with my iPhone and a dialog box pops up stating "this iPhone synced with another iTunes library, erase and sync?". I checked the manually manage music and videos box because I don't want all my wife's pics and music on my iPhone. How do I Sync without erasing what I have on my iPhone???

columbus new boy wrote:
How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
It's not that simple. For example, I've 3500 songs on my MacBook but don't want them all on my phone, so I have to manually select each song again???
There has to be a solution.
Why not simply make a playlist with the songs you want on the iPhone?
and maintain a current backup of your computer.

My hard drive fried and had to be replaced. I'm trying to install CS4 from my original discs but keep getting this error message - "One or more of the required components of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard failed to install correctly". A customer s

My hard drive fried and had to be replaced. I'm trying to install CS4 from my original discs but keep getting this error message - "One or more of the required components of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard failed to install correctly". A customer service rep gave me a link to download off the Adobe site, but when I try to open the file to run it, I get this error message - "A problem occurred extracting the archive".
Can anyone help?

Yep. Nothing happens at all. Windows tries to execute the uninstaller, but I don't get any other screen and all activity stops for the MSI. I monitored it in Process Monitor and the MSI executable appears, but is quickly ended, like it couldn't find anything or something.
It's as if windows has a blank entry in Programs and Features, because it used to show the size of the Adobe application in the "Size" column. Now it's just blank. Link to screenshot below:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/5006/screenshotcaf.jpg
Note the install date. That's when I was able to successfully reinstall it. Now I can't even do that. I should also mention I tried Revo Uninstaller. It deleted one small registry key, but nothing changed.
By the way, is the CS cleaner supposed to ask for a disc in the drive when you run it? It refused to run unless I had one in it, so I used my install dvd.

Wipe Hard Drive clean install of Window Server

What is the best way to wipe Hard Drive? Save a partition for later use and use remaining partition to install Sever OS, save to external drive(to use later) and wipe completely(cleanest install, I believe), complete wipe completely not worrying about
saving anything, or suggestions?
NOTE; The machine has never been turned on, still in the box. Hardware goes above and beyond Min. Requirements for software.
Which is the best way to install Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Evaluation download - ISO image? Azure?
How to install Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials from ISO image- Download and burn to DVD, Save to USB or to actual machine?
How to install Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials from Azure? (Don't have Azure account)
I need to have it completed ASAP so I can install Accounting/PM database software. Need it operational Monday if all possible. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Woodrow

There are a lot of embedded questions here, I'll try to hit them all:
1) If you're reinstalling on the same partition, you do not need to be too crazy in how it gets formatted. There's no performance gain to using BCWipe or anything. When you format, you're just erasing the table of contents, then overwriting the
actual data later on anyway. Just keep it simple.
2) If you want to save the data, just copy it somewhere else before you delete anything. If you're not concerned about the data, don't worry about it, just go back to answer #1.
3) You can download the Evaluation OS from the MS website. You cannot turn an eval copy into a full install without reinstalling, so are you sure that is what you want? You'll end up test building, then when you like it, you'll have to do it
all over again.
4) ISO to DVD or USB: Doesn't matter how you end up installing it. Today's machines can usually support any install media. Some ways are faster, but you're only talking about saving minutes. What does it really matter?
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Need to wipe hard drive to restore to previous date from time machine back up. Unclear how to do this. Please advise or provide link to this procedure on website. Thanks.

Need to wipe hard drive to restore to previous date from time machine back up. Unclear how to do this. Please advise or provide link to this procedure on website. Thanks.

See Pondini's TM FAQs for starters.

Computer hard drive fried, all data lost, how can I get my music library off my ipod touch and saved agian to another computer? no downloaded songs, all were cd's I put on it

computer hard drive fried, all data lost, how can I get my music library off and onto another computer? no downloads, just cd's I loaded on to it

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How to wipe hard drive bc selling computer and want all passwords/personal info gone? etc

how to wipe hard drive bc selling computer and want all passwords/personal info gone?

You need to boot the computer from another source, e.g. a CD or an external drive. Then run Disk Utility, select the drive you want cleaned up, and run Erase. Note the security options: "write zeroes" will erase the drive completely.

Purchase Adobe Acrobat XI, had to wipe hard drive clean & start over, need to reload it. Can u Help ?

Purchase Adobe Acrobat XI, had to wipe hard drive clean & start over, need to reload it..Can u Help ?

Hi greg v.p44270855,
We would love to help. What part are you having trouble with? For starters, please make sure that you're logged in as an administrator, and temporarily disable any antivirus software. If you don't have the Acrobat installer, you can download Acrobat from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat.html.
If you're running into a particular problem with the installation, please provide some specifics about the problem (error messages, operating system and version, and so so).
Best,
Sara

How wipe hard drive clean without a disk and reinstall OS?

Running a 15" Mid 2010, OS 10.8.3; after migrating Profile to new MacBook want to wipe hard drive clean & reinstall Mountain Lion 10.8.3 in order to give to daughter as a "new" computer. All I can find in archived discussions is how to do it w/ a disk.

Yes I would.
The iLife Apps, "i" Photo, Movie and Garageband (And "i" DVD and WEB if you Mac came with Snow Leopard originally), are not included with the Operating system. They are separate applications that you need to either download from the Mac App Store, from your Purchases area once you have logged into the MAS with the Apple ID you used to register that Mac with, or from the second System Reinstall Disc, the Applications disc, that came with your Mac if it originally came with Snow Leopard.
So I read you are running a Mid 2010 MBP. In that case you would need to use the second Original System Disc to reinstall the iLife Applications.
That may be a problem for you as the iLife apps that came with that system are 3 years old and may not want to install on Mt Lion 10.8.3.
If you run into problems installing them from that second system disc you may have to start off by first reinstalling Snow Leopard and then the iLife Apps and Then Upgrade to Mt Lion. Making sure after installing Snow Leopard and the iLife Apps you update everything through Software Update before you do the Mt Lion upgrade.
Sorry about the hassle but blame Apple for that.
Hopefully you have the Original system discs but if you don't then you can order a replacement set from Apple for a small charge.
Good Luck & Best Wishes.

Apple Store will wipe hard drive - how long will that take - estimated?

Apple Store will wipe hard drive - how long will that take - estimated?

Ask the staff at the Apple Store.

Help, my 3+ year old iMac has a fried logic board

I have an iMac G5 PPC 1.8GHz 20". Within the past year or so Apple replaced the power supply as my serial# fell under the G5 Repair Extension Program. It was working fine until recently when the screen would lock up and require reboots. Now it will not even boot up. I took it back to the Apple Store and was told it had a bad logic board. The tech showed me the bulging capacitors. The estimate for the repair is a whopping 600+ bucks.
I am very reluctant to invest that much dough when I was already thinking of selling this one and buying a new Intel based iMac. Besides, I need the money for gasoline for the next week! I thought I could attempt the repair myself until I found I could not get the part any cheaper than what Apple was going to charge.
This really bugs me as I've had the computer for just over 3 years. Any ideas on what I should do? Try to sell the remaining good parts? Can it even be used as a monitor? The display is still in fine shape. Hard drive is good too (250G). Thanks in advance.
- Rick

My nearly 3 year old iMac died a couple months ago and after jumping through some hoops to get the date of purchase reset to what it should've been, I took my iMac in to a local service provider to get it fixed under the repair extension program.
I was then told when they diagnosed my computer that the logic board and power supply were both dead and needed replacing. When I brought up the repair extension program I was told that it only covered the power supply and not the logic board.
Should I contact Apple Customer Relations or should I go back to the people who diagnosed my computer and plead my case with them?
P.S The serial number of my computer falls into the range posted on the Repair Extension Program for the Video and Power Issues page, so I'd imagine my computer qualifies since it isn't 3 years old yet.
Thanks

MacBook won't start, shows folder with question mark. Hard drive fried?

Last night, my MacBook was loading the contents of a message board in Firefox. Someone had apparently uploaded 20 mb photos, or something, because my Mac practically froze trying to render the webpage. I left my Mac running for perhaps 45 minutes. When I came back, I noticed the fans were whirring very loudly, and that the bottom of the MacBook (I'm guessing where the hard drive is located) was very hot. When Force Quit didn't work, I decided to manually shut down the computer by pushing the power button. When I turned it back on the computer made high pitch screching sounds (perhaps from the hard drive) and the computer wouldn't start up, only showing a folder with a question mark?
Is my MacBook fried? I have five years' worth of very important pictures, not to mention all of my other files, stored there and nowhere else. Do you think I can get the files back?

If you see a flashing question mark when you start your Mac, it's probably because it can't find the system software it needs to start up. Usually, all you have to do to get your Mac back up and running is remind it where its software is.
See if this helps: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1440
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How can I wipe hard drive and do a clean install of Mavericks?

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I think there is a way to do this with Disc Utility? But don't know how. Advice welcome

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