Post #273,599
11/21/06 1:09:03 AM
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Dead mac mini
Sniff Sniff..My Mac Mini's hard drive died today Sniff sniff
I was using Iworks to make a pdf for the first time it looked great
then I was stumbling the net get stuck on a page the little color wheel was go round and round
so I left it for a bit came back it was still going and going
so I killed the power
waited about 1 or 2 mins turn it back on and got the appeals logo and the other wheel and it was going and going
after about 3 mins i killed it
could not get it to boot
so I put the boot disc in
start the tool file it came back with a fatal error in the mass storage Ahhhhh
so I called mac and gave them the error message
they said the hard drive is dead
Thank god I got a 3yr protection plan on it
took to the mac store will have it back by Fri
I took it in a 6:00 PM
its 12:56AM
I MISS MY MAC!!!!!
back using my work window box GGGRRRRRRRRRR
it was the old mac mini with the G4 chip
I would like the new one but not now :(
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Post #273,600
11/21/06 1:25:45 AM
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Re: Dead mac mini
it was the old mac mini with the G4 chip
I would like the new one but not now :( Why? Do you think PC hard disks don't fail?
Peter
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Post #273,602
11/21/06 2:46:58 AM
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Re: Dead mac mini
no
just faster
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Post #273,610
11/21/06 5:52:41 AM
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Re: Dead mac mini
no
just faster
I wouldn't bet on that, either.
Peter
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Post #273,608
11/21/06 5:13:31 AM
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Is this the 2nd or 3rd dead Mac HD report here?
ie HD failure on mini or other recent model Apple, within last few months.
Seems a lot - guessing at number of Macs VS other *nix, Beastware, amidst the half a hundred regulars who post. Looks excessive as a 'cluster', if deemed infant mortality. (Or maybe the mini is so tiny, just more handling shocks. I didn't see any elastomer shock mounting in a few pics of the guts.)
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Post #273,609
11/21/06 5:52:09 AM
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2nd.
And the other one is Scott, and he doesn't count because he kills all hardware he comes into contact with.
Peter
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Post #273,616
11/21/06 8:42:18 AM
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they use bog standard ide harddrives so, shrug
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Post #273,617
11/21/06 8:55:30 AM
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Indeed, my Mini is Maxtor-powered.
Peter
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Post #273,622
11/21/06 11:58:48 AM
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Heat maybe?
That small a box may lead the HD to run hotter than avg.
I lost a drive to that on my box...and am likely to lose another...though I caught the heat issue in time to deal with it.
failures were hitachi drives though, not maxtor.
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Post #273,623
11/21/06 1:18:46 PM
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None here
We have 3 macs, 2 iBooks and a MacBook Pro - none have had disk issues in the nearly 3 years we started buying them. My work laptop (HP) from my last job went through 2 disks in 2 years. Harddisks are amazing bits of engineering and technology. It's somewhat surprising that they work at all.
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Post #273,645
11/21/06 8:52:41 PM
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Just got a call
WOW just got a call my mac mini is fixed
only 24hr
they put in a new hard drive and OX 10
so I can get it in the AM
so by the nite time I will be up and running :)
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