Strange hard drive crashes

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Strange hard drive crashes

Yesterday my MBP crashed, and would not start up. I was able to get it to boot from disk, where the Disk Utility showed no hard drive present. Today, it started up normally. Is there any way to fix this without just replacing it?

MacBook Pro 1.83ghz (early 2006), Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 21, 2006 8:54 PM

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hsaybasili

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Nov 22, 2006 3:19 AM in response to RFaulder

It seems like an hardware failure... Replace it.

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Nov 22, 2006 4:11 AM in response to RFaulder

Did you update the new Firmware? I update it to 1.2 and mi computer is a mess. I tryed to reinstall the sysmen to the lates but no luck. I crashed al the time with the lates system update.

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RFaulder Author

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Nov 22, 2006 7:10 PM in response to RFaulder

Well I was able to get it in Target Disk mode before it did another crash and I backed everything up, so I sent it in for a replacement.

And this notebook actually did do the same thing a few days before the update, so I doubt that had anything to do with it.

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greentom

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Jan 22, 2007 6:58 AM in response to RFaulder

We had a MBP with an 160 GB hard drive fail TWICE! The first disk went out and we thought it might be the disk. Then the second disk went out as well. It was impossible to mount the disk on any computer. I am not sure the FirmWare update was done. Is there a heating issue? SmallDog.com said that the FirmWare update would also address heating issues.

-Oliver

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