Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not sure that you ever said that it was on its original disk, you get speed improvements as years go on even without SSDs never mind reliability of having one <3 years old.... Look for Carbon Copy Cloner to mirror image your current disk john -----Original Message----- I am fairly convinced that the HD is about to fail, Jayanand, which is not that unusual after 7 years of daily (almost) use, independently of OS. To all others: thanks for the many helpful suggestions. I visited a shop in Alicante during the lunch break today, and they can replace the hard disk with an SSD of the same size for a reasonable price, so I will get a speed boost as well. Cheers, Nathan Op Do, 8 oktober, 2015 17:08, schreef Jayanand Govindaraj: > I thought the whole idea of using a MAC with all the proprietary > restrictions was to avoid this sort of nonsense. Never happens to me > on Windows nowadays..... > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:26 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote: > >> recent OSX.10 will start from a special restore partician if you >> runrepair disck >> >> ric >> >> >> > On Oct 8, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Leo Wesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Nathan, >> > >> > Sounds like a software thing. I would go back to a blank disc and >> install software one at a time to see if one of your programs is >> causing the problem. >> > >> > Leo Wesson >> > leowesson.com >> > >> >> On Oct 8, 2015, at 01:16, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> My 7-year iMac started acting up back in April: it became very >> sluggish >> and finally refused to boot up. I managed to boot it from an external >> disk and back up my mail and other stuff (my pictures all reside on >> external drives, so no danger there). I then took the computer to the >> Apple Store and had them look at it. The verdict was that there was >> nothing physically wrong with the internal HD, so they just wiped the >> disk clean and re-installed the OSX and all was well???until this >> week, when it started showing the same symptoms again. It still boots >> up but is extremely sluggish, to the point of being useless. Disk >> Utility reports no problems but obviously something is wrong. I >> recently upgraded to El Capitan but I do not think this is the cause >> because it was beginning to show the symptoms already before the >> upgrade. Before I take it back to the store for a hard disk >> replacement, does anyone have any idea of what else can cause such >> behavior? >> >> >> >> I have my new Macbook Air, and all my stuff is backed up etc. But >> >> I >> want the nice big screen of my iMac back, and I do not feel like >> buying a new computer at this point. >> >> >> >> TIA for any ideas, >> >> Nathan >> >> >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> >> Alicante, Spain >> >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// >> >> <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> < >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> >> YNWA >> >>