[willyummm]

Hey, I have a 12" PowerBook that I purchased for school about three months ago. Today it would not boot up and I decided to put the OSX CD in and hold down the C key to get it to boot off that to reinstall the OS. However, it doesn't recognize the hard drive partition with it already on there. I tried to reformat the hard drive, but it starts the process and then hangs about 5-10% of the way through.

If you have any ideas or solutions to this, I'd greatly appreciate it!

[Spheric Harlot]

Argh.

DiskWarrior.

OTOH, if it won't reformat, it almost looks like a bad drive.

Take it back.

[willyummm]

The hard drive (or I believe it's the hard drive, on the left palm rest) vibrates nonstop from the time it's on until I cut it off. I'm off to the Apple Store! Thanks for your help.