Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aram Thank you for your thoughts and suggestions. The unit is only 15 months old, and the Apple store is only 3 miles away, so it is going back to them regardless of what is wrong. Thanks again, and best wishes for the holiday season. Gerry > On 23 Dec 2015, at 22:23, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > If it is the hard drive, and you hear a clicking from the drive itself, > the most likely cause is the hard drive head is fused to a platter in the > drive. There is something you can try. You remove the drive, then open > it up is a dust free a place as you can find. Yes, this definitely will > void the warranty. Ha. You will need a very small Torx driver. I found > a nice set at Sears. When you remove the cover you will see the platters > and the head mechanism. If the head mechanism is NOT parked along one > side of the platter, most likely it is fused to the platter. That > actually is good news at this point. You will need to use a small hooked > device, like a very small crochet hook. I made one out of a dissecting > needle I had since my wife I very possessive about her stuff. Now > carefully try to move the head across the platter just a little bit. If > it is fused, it will take a fair amount of force to break it free. It if > moves very freely, then that is not good news since the problem now is > most likely electronic. Let's assume it moves. Carefully reassemble the > drive an hook it back up. Be sure to have another drive, either external > or internal, so you can back up your data. Turn the computer back on and > keep your fingers crossed as you press the "ON" button. If all goes > according to plan, you will have a functioning drive again. Hopefully > long enough to clone it or back up your data. > > I have done this three times for clicking hard drives. Worked every time. > Only lost one file on one of them. One drive I am still using. It is a > portable drive. I don't use it for anything critical, just for > transferring stuff. Drives are pretty well filtered so if you did not get > any gritty dust stuck under the head while it was open, the filter will > probably clean the air enough to have it work for as long as you might > need it. > > Hope this helps. > > Aram > > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Man [mailto:richard at richardmanphoto.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 2:49 AM > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Computer problems > > If coming from the hard drive, and most likely it is, a clicking sound > means the drive is dying and probably unsalvageable. Sorry to be the > bearer of bad news. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:56 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> > wrote: > >> My main computer appears not to like me any more. It is a Mac Mini and >> will not start. I just get a white(wish) screen full of coloured >> pixels and a clicking sound. I have to now use my ancient 2009 Macbook >> which is still going strong but is restricting my photographic output. >> >> Gerry >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> // > http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > // https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information