I have a mini that has 10.5.8 installed. I was away for 6 months so I shut it down. When I turned it back on I got the spinning wheel forever. I kept retrying to boot up with no luck. I was able to then re-install 10.5.4 and upgrade it to 10.5.8 again. I run virtually no programs except for iTunes. I use it as a music jukebox. In the middle of playing a song after hours of working fine it just stopped. Frozen. No way to reboot, again just the spinning wheel. So I tried to re-install again and after the 3rd try with a freeze in the middle of each attempt I finally got a warning saying there was a problem with the hard drive. This is after running Disk Utility and Disk Warrior which both said the disk was fine. Now I am trying to install it on an external drive. It stopped in the middle again. Now on my 3rd external attempt it seems to be installing but it is a USB drive, not firewire. I don't know if it will boot the system or not.
Is there a way that I can replace the internal drive? Is there a solid state drive available and compatible?
The machine is only 2 years old and I keep all the music files on an external firewire drive so the internal drive is used only to run iTunes. I need help.
Is there a way that I can replace the internal drive? Is there a solid state drive available and compatible?
The machine is only 2 years old and I keep all the music files on an external firewire drive so the internal drive is used only to run iTunes. I need help.