yes. your hard drive has either been locked or is dying.
symptoms of this include applications struggling to load, strange sounds which you haven't heard before. irratic booting, etc. this is a dead hard disk. please could you drop me an email off list with details of your machine, if you have apple care cover, etc and I can walk you through various test steps, etc to identify a dead drive. from what you have described, your drive has failed. Hard drives have a shelf life, because of their rotational speed, heat, data read and write processes, drives fail. When they do, you know about it. I've been there only yesterday with an SCSI drive which failed, had to disassemble it, clean, respin and reassemble it to bring it back to life to back up the contents to install on a nwer drive. lew On 4 Dec 2011, at 21:30, Roger Woolgrove wrote: > Hi all, > > After installing some software and returning to desktop, MacbookHD is dimmed > and I seem unable to access it. In some instances a reboot resolves this and > in others it doesn't unless I leave it for somewhere between 24 and 48 hours. > Does anyone know why the prolonged wait and better still, how do I prevent it > happening. > > Thanks > > Roger > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Mr. L. Alexander. Free Macs For The Blind. E-Mail: freemacsfortheb...@mac-access.net Direct line: 07936 877500 Free Macs For The blind is a charity project supplying older but working apple macs for blind and visually impaired people throughout the UK FOR FREE! Do you have an old unwanted mac, any hardware, software, old PC's, etc or a copy of outspoken 9.2 you would be willing to donate? please get in touch. Mac Access Dot Net; The British Mac Accessibility Network, we're here to help anybody disabled with anything Apple! http://www.mac-access.net <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
