On Aug 18, 2005, at 2:31 pm, Simon Royal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
I wouldn't change it just yet. Since the problem "corrected" itself
it could just be a one-off glitch (computer overheated or some such).
I'd definitely keep an eye on it though; boot off your Tiger install
disk and run disk repair. Make sure your data is backed up often (a
good idea in any case) and you might consider keeping a bootable
partition on your FireWire HD.
Good luck,
-Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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