[Rono]

I have an iBook that appears to have a HD problem. It is extremely slow to startup. THen once it loads it works fine.... for a while. THen the HD makes a loud clanking, clicking noise and a few others. While this is happeneing, the ibook just hangs. Has anybody used or know about Micro Doc for hard drive repairs?

[SupahCoolX]

Do you have the Hardware Test CD that came with the iBook? Or do you have Diskwarrior?
Try one of those and see if it reports any problems.

[Rono]

Originally posted by SupahCoolX:
Do you have the Hardware Test CD that came with the iBook? Or do you have Diskwarrior?
Try one of those and see if it reports any problems.

Ran hardware test, once it showed an error, next time it came up OK. Disk warrior can't rebuild the directory. It reports an error.

[tmjf_sifu]

Originally posted by Rono:
I have an iBook that appears to have a HD problem. It is extremely slow to startup. THen once it loads it works fine.... for a while. THen the HD makes a loud clanking, clicking noise and a few others. While this is happeneing, the ibook just hangs. Has anybody used or know about Micro Doc for hard drive repairs?

is sounds very much like you have abad sector on the disk. you may be able to correct it if you have a sector repair utility or by reformatting (low-level) the drive.

i have had some experience with this and it sucks. if it is a bad sector, the hard drive will be prone to having this problem again.

[Rono]

Originally posted by tmjf_sifu:
is sounds very much like you have abad sector on the disk. you may be able to correct it if you have a sector repair utility or by reformatting (low-level) the drive.

i have had some experience with this and it sucks. if it is a bad sector, the hard drive will be prone to having this problem again.

I already did this about a year ago. It was not that bad, until now. It's not repairable any more. I need a replacement.

Thanks for your help.