On Nov 9, 2008, at 1:35 AM, joplinfan wrote:
> > The HD verifies fine in Disk Utility... but it is noisy and overall > just seems to run "sluggish" and slow. I'll replace it tomorrow and > see what happens. Noisy and sluggish ... could imply what others suspect ... disk going bad. One of mine did that ... I believe it was trying to re-read / write things and sounded squeeky ... icons disappeared, and re- appeared ... partitions wouldn't open ... then they would ... then nothing ... Don't wait to replace it ... backup what you need ... if you're lucky, you can save things. Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---