Mike, A similar thing happeded to my cube. One day I noticed that my mac had booted up using the firewire drive, and the internal drive was completely invisible on the desktop, and silent, just as if it wasn't even there. Unfortunately it didn't come back agin like yours.
Yes, you do need a new hard drive, I think. at least I couldn't find any way of coaxing life out of the old disk, even by swappingh it into my firewire enclosure. Therefore I would feel much safer backing up the data and upgrading to a new drive. It was a Maxtor/Apple branded 20GB running at 5400rpm. Since then my external drive failed 14 months into its 12 month warranty (It became noisy and extraordinarily slow, so I was able to transfer my data to another drive, but it took all day...). This was also a Maxtor (120GB, 7200rpm). I therefore bought 2 new drives, both Hitachi (nee IBM) Deskstar, because they come with a 3 year warranty, and cost hardly any extra. I had also upgraded to a Superdrive: I wonder if the extra heat contributed to the demise of my internal drive, or if it would have happened anyway. It's kind of frustrating, since my old 1990 model IIsi is still running without a single fault after nearly 15 years On Thursday, August 18, 2005, at 01:14PM, Simon Royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi > >I have an eMac with 40GB internal drive. It is about 18 months old and had no >hardware problems til this point. I have added more RAM, a firewire HD and >upgraded the Combo Drive to a DVDRW drive about 4 months ago. It has had no >problems since then until last night. > >Last night it was behaving a little slow after being on for a couple of weeks >solid, so I turned it off left it for about 10 mins and turned it back on. I >was >then presented with a flashing folder, like the old pre-OSX 'cant find >blessed' icon. > >I booted from my Tiger install and went into StartUp Disc and my hard drive >wasn't there, nor in Disk Utility. Thinking my hard drive was blown or dead. I >turned it off. > >Later I turned it on and everything was ok, booted as normal and been running >ever since. > >Is my drive about to give up the ghost? Was it a software glitch? Do I need to >change the drive? > > >Simon Royal >Web Blog - http://mjbsworld.tblog.com/ >--- The box said "Requires Windows 2000, or better" so I bought an Apple Mac. > > > > >---- Message sent via Totalise Webmail - http://www.totalise.co.uk/ MAX >Broadband 2Mb now just ?17.99 a month plus 2 months free! > >-- >The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > >iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; >Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> >To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- >iPod Accessories for Less >at 1-800-iPOD.COM >Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal >www.1800ipod.com >--------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
