Hard Drive issues
Hi everyone,
I've been having hard drive problems with my iMag G5, bought last summer. Basically what happens, is over a couple of weeks, the computer starts to simply "freeze up" occasionally while you are using the computer. Then, what happened this morning, it won't turn on at all. Trying to boot into single user mode sort of works, I get to a command prompt, but when trying to boot the system, I get "disk0s3 I/O" errors.
The "fix" I have at the moment is to reinstall OS X. I've done that twice now.
Running Disk Utility's repair disk feature was failing this morning, it wouldn't complete. Last week, it rand without issue, reporting a clean bill of health. Using the Apple Hardware Test, I could find no errors.
Is this likley to be a software issue, or, as I suspect, a slowly dying harddrive?
If so, what is the best way to get it fixed? I live in the Netherlands, and the closest "Apple Authorized Service Provider" to me wants to charge me for a "Service Agreement" - which would clearly be a charge for warranty service under an existing warranty.
Any help would be great,
Douglas
I've been having hard drive problems with my iMag G5, bought last summer. Basically what happens, is over a couple of weeks, the computer starts to simply "freeze up" occasionally while you are using the computer. Then, what happened this morning, it won't turn on at all. Trying to boot into single user mode sort of works, I get to a command prompt, but when trying to boot the system, I get "disk0s3 I/O" errors.
The "fix" I have at the moment is to reinstall OS X. I've done that twice now.
Running Disk Utility's repair disk feature was failing this morning, it wouldn't complete. Last week, it rand without issue, reporting a clean bill of health. Using the Apple Hardware Test, I could find no errors.
Is this likley to be a software issue, or, as I suspect, a slowly dying harddrive?
If so, what is the best way to get it fixed? I live in the Netherlands, and the closest "Apple Authorized Service Provider" to me wants to charge me for a "Service Agreement" - which would clearly be a charge for warranty service under an existing warranty.
Any help would be great,
Douglas
iMac G5 (no iSight), Mac OS X (10.4.3), System freezes, no booting, and disk I/O errors.
