James Gryphon
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So I'm in OS X, and my applications begin running at an unbearably slow rate (like, half an hour of no activity). I figure that restarting the machine couldn't do any harm, so after a long, long wait (and attempts, in vain, to get the applications shut down and the computer active again), I get it shut off and attempt to boot it back up.
I'm greeted by an endless spinning wheel of death, and the ever-bland Apple logo which, in retrospect, was an appropriate replacement for the Happy Mac (which is entirely unsuitable for these circumstances).
After several vain attempts to boot up from the disk, I finally insert DiskWarrior, figuring that it can't mess things up any more than they have been already.
After going through all the usual repair routine (and delightfully renaming my OS X partition "EFI Boot"), I eventually get back into OS X, to find that it hasn't improved one iota. My machine is just as unusable as before.
The alleged SMART system claims that the drive is fine, but I'm not sure how much I trust that. The only thing that keeps me from thinking it's definitely a problem with the drive -- and that this computer's just an expensive paperweight for the time being -- is that Windows XP, which is installed on a different partition of the same drive, works just fine, as though nothing is wrong.
Since I'm in Windows right now, I'm not sure as how to access my system specs, but it's a relatively recent (probably '08 or '09) iMac, with Snow Leopard installed.
One diagnostic step I haven't tried this time around is to put in the 10.5 disc I have lying around somewhere to try to repair the drive... but I'm not sure where that disc is off-hand, or if it would help anything anyway.
What do y'all think of this? If you need more information just let me know, and I'll try to provide it.
I'm greeted by an endless spinning wheel of death, and the ever-bland Apple logo which, in retrospect, was an appropriate replacement for the Happy Mac (which is entirely unsuitable for these circumstances).
After several vain attempts to boot up from the disk, I finally insert DiskWarrior, figuring that it can't mess things up any more than they have been already.
After going through all the usual repair routine (and delightfully renaming my OS X partition "EFI Boot"), I eventually get back into OS X, to find that it hasn't improved one iota. My machine is just as unusable as before.
The alleged SMART system claims that the drive is fine, but I'm not sure how much I trust that. The only thing that keeps me from thinking it's definitely a problem with the drive -- and that this computer's just an expensive paperweight for the time being -- is that Windows XP, which is installed on a different partition of the same drive, works just fine, as though nothing is wrong.
Since I'm in Windows right now, I'm not sure as how to access my system specs, but it's a relatively recent (probably '08 or '09) iMac, with Snow Leopard installed.
One diagnostic step I haven't tried this time around is to put in the 10.5 disc I have lying around somewhere to try to repair the drive... but I'm not sure where that disc is off-hand, or if it would help anything anyway.
What do y'all think of this? If you need more information just let me know, and I'll try to provide it.
