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thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go...

its only about a year and a half old, and running 10.5.7

My internal drive has gone to the dogs, I can't see it or recover it. But I can feel heat coming from the back of the mac after it has been on for a few hours, I download quite a films movies, albums etc - could the drive have overheated from the mac being on constantly for days and this is...

Well for some reason the internal drive is getting worse, diskwarrior and disk utility can see the drive, although it's lost it's name - but neither can repair it as the option is greyed out. It disappeared altogether last night but I realised after leaving it running and trying to get it to...

I'm not sure where you're coming from to be honest, but I updated the software on the external drive to 10.5, same as the internal but it made no difference to trying to repair the internal drive.

so it makes a difference for operating systems? I'd have more luck if I upgraded my external HD software to 10.5.7 which is what I have on the internal disk?

it had 10.4 installed and came with 10.5 DVDs, so it has 10.5 on it - the external has 10.4 on it. So I should upgrade the external software and try again? this will make a difference??

...ok last week my mac (1 year old iMc, 2.4ghz intel chip, 4gb ram, system 10.5.7) went all funny, everything was working slowly - so I restarted, same thing, I restarted again and it just went to the grey screen with the spinning ball. Ok so I restarted from my tiger disk and it could see...