Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Spencer
On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:51:29 AM UTC-5, Dan wrote: ...To be honest, farking inside an iMac is such a PITA, I've often told people to just boot/live off a chain of external firewire drives and let the internal spin down. This makes good sense to me. So to be certain I'm following

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-22 Thread Dan
At 10:27 AM -0800 12/22/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:51:29 AM UTC-5, Dan wrote: ...To be honest, farking inside an iMac is such a PITA, I've often told people to just boot/live off a chain of external firewire drives and let the internal spin down. This makes

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-21 Thread Al Poulin
On Dec 20, 5:21 pm, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:51:29 AM UTC-5, Dan wrote: Could be the drive.  Just as likely to be the fans running at a higher than normal speed because there's 5 years worth of dust bunnies growin in there. Just had the thing

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-19 Thread Christopher Satterfield
There is a Lion upgrade USB drive, however I believe you will need to install Snow Leopard then upgrade to Lion, since Apple won't make it easy to do a clean install. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-19 Thread Dan
[html stripped] At 10:32 AM -0800 11/30/2011, Bill Spencer wrote: Hi there: The 1.83ghz machine below ObQuip: below is a goto. Emails should never have gotos. Top down. Not top, scroll to bottom to find information, then scroll back up to find your place, then re-read and hope you

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-04 Thread Eric Volker
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: Sorry for my late response. I'll try to answer as best I can, based on my experience upgrading my 2007 iMac. Is this replacement something I can do myself or would it be better to pay someone to do so? The ifixit site has a

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-04 Thread Gary Fortman
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Eric Volker evol...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: Sorry for my late response. I'll try to answer as best I can, based on my experience upgrading my 2007 iMac. Is this replacement

Re: Replacing the HD

2011-12-01 Thread Al Poulin
On Nov 30, 1:32 pm, Bill Spencer wspen...@jhu.edu wrote: Hi there: The 1.83ghz machine below is five years old (the first of the late-2006 core 2 duo machines) and I'm beginning to notice a minor whine sound when it's running. I assume this is the (original 160gb) HD demonstrating some wear,

Replacing the HD

2011-11-30 Thread Bill Spencer
Hi there: The 1.83ghz machine below is five years old (the first of the late-2006 core 2 duo machines) and I'm beginning to notice a minor whine sound when it's running. I assume this is the (original 160gb) HD demonstrating some wear, so in order to avoid a headache later on I'm checking into