[dangerman]

My 40Gb HD on my 667 went out on me 3 months ago, so I decided to upgrade to a AL15" 1.5 G with an 80G HD.

Yesterday it took a dump.

bummer

I got it backed up though, should be a quick fix.

[d.fine]

AppleCare ? A faulty drive should be replaced by Apple ...

[dangerman]

Originally posted by d.fine:
AppleCare ? A faulty drive should be replaced by Apple ...

it shouldn't be an applecare issue. Its covered under the plain old warranty. Its two months old.


I went to the Santa Monica Applestore, and the genius reformatted the drive (I back up often, so I wasn't concerned) then re-loaded the OS, to no avail.

The Apple Hardware Test is kinda iffy. When I ran it the first time, it found a problem with the drive. When the genius ran it before the install, it showed no problem, then wouldn't boot after the install, so we ran it again. No problem. Still wouldn't boot.

Apple now has it. Too bad I sold my Ti 667. I'm using a thinkpad, and I really don't know how someone could ever put up with this thing. I'm having pc heeby jeebies.

[d.fine]

That is so typical. You can reproduce a problem 10 times at home, and the same thing happens over and over, and the moment you go to the store (or wherever) and say 'this and this is wrong, I'll show you' you can't reproduce the problem. It works fine as it didn't before. It has happened too many times to me ...
Well I hope you get your PB back soon, and everything is OK, good luck !