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hard drive failure or dust problems?
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Hi everyone. I'm having a problem with my Powerbook G4 aluminum 15" 1.5ghz's hard-drive.
Basically, yesterday the hard drive started clicking. I know that means hard drive failure, so I immediately tried to run disk utility, which promptly locked up the computer and gave me the beach ball. I restarted and tried to boot up from my OS 10.4 Dvd. When it tried to find the internal HD it took about 20 minutes until it showed up, and even then it was still clicking and couldn't be repaired. I turned the computer off and sprayed some compressed air in the keyboard and into the CD drive and let it sit for 30 minutes turned off. When I came back and powered it up, it worked fine and the clicking had stopped.
What I'm wondering is, do you think the drive is going to fail soon? (I already copied all the files I need to an external).
How expensive will it be to replace it? Is it very hard to do this myself or would I have to take it in?
Should I start shopping for a new computer or do you think it was just dust on the drive?
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1.5 GHZ Powerbook G4 | 1.25GB RAM | Dell 2007WFP 20" Monitor | 500GB MyBook Premium | 60GB Black iPod Video
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another little utility you might consider running for the future is SMART Reporter.
it basically checks the SMART status of your drive at preconfigured time intervals and lets you know when your HD is gonna crash...
maybe you install this little app to check your current status also?
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Yes, your drive IS going to fail, they sometimes come back from the dead for a while. You have your files, don't put anything else important on there.
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any idea how long it will last? i'm trying to get to december on this computer at least, but i'm sure it'll be gone before then. 3 and a half years no problems til now!
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1.5 GHZ Powerbook G4 | 1.25GB RAM | Dell 2007WFP 20" Monitor | 500GB MyBook Premium | 60GB Black iPod Video
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Danger pstinnett! Imminent failure. Backup, Replace now. Do not pass go.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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clone that HD before it fails. The HD in my MBP C2D started clicking not too long ago (and I also noticed a signficant slow down in file reads and writes). Luckily for me I was in the process of getting ready for Time Machine and had just bought a 750 GB external drive for my home network and, thus, decided to back things up. Literally two days later the HD up and died...so listen to the advice and save yourself a major headache.....back up those files ASAP. 
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yeah everything is backed up. noticing some slowdowns. my beautiful old powerbook is on it's death desk. 
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1.5 GHZ Powerbook G4 | 1.25GB RAM | Dell 2007WFP 20" Monitor | 500GB MyBook Premium | 60GB Black iPod Video
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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go to ifixit.com and see the steps there to replace a hard drive on a powerbook. if they seem ok for you to do it, do it your self. otherwise, just go online and find a hard drive and take in to a apple service location and have them do it. hope all is well and your powerbook can get repaired soon.
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still alive this morning.
I've been planning on buying a new iMac 24" around christmas anyway, so if this powerbook dies I may do that, then down the line repair the hard drive so I have two computers.
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Cool. Just remember, it IS a ticking timebomb and will fail randomly again at some time in the future.
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