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Oct 2008 unibody Macbook Pro Hard drive problem

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iknowgungfu

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Hi all,

I have the basic Macbook Pro notebook bought October 2008. Not had any problems since I bought it but this morning the internal hard drive just started to spin increasingly fast to the point that it was louder than an Xbox 360 🙂p).

After it reached what I imagine to be a peak the macbook put itself to sleep and then reactivated again. I didn't lose any data but it is slightly unnerving though. The CPUs were in use to about 75-80%.

All I had open was safari, calender and mail.

I have a Lacie USB drive too, but that was inactive throughout.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers in advance.
 
I don't know how loud an xBox gets, but are you sure it was the HDD and not the fans?

You can use iStat Menus (www.islayer.com) to look at your CPU usage CPU/GPU temperature and fan speed (in rounds per minute).
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(Don't worry it's just a Menu Bar add on with not so many boxes open at one time, only if you choose to.)

As for going to sleep: have you tried repairing permissions via Disk Utility?
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Stupid me. Yes it was the fans, not sure why I thought it was HDD....

I have iStats and the fans were running quite high. What does repairing the permission do?
 
spinnerlys said:
I don't know how loud an xBox gets, but are you sure it was the HDD and not the fans?

You can use iStat Menus (www.islayer.com) to look at your CPU usage CPU/GPU temperature and fan speed (in rounds per minute).
887.jpg

(Don't worry it's just a Menu Bar add on with not so many boxes open at one time, only if you choose to.)

As for going to sleep: have you tried repairing permissions via Disk Utility?
repair_permissions.jpg
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Don't mean to thread jack but may I ask how did you put those red arrows on the picture?
 
iknowgungfu said:
Stupid me. Yes it was the fans, not sure why I thought it was HDD....

I have iStats and the fans were running quite high. What does repairing the permission do?
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Dr. Q said it best:
Permissions are the file system settings that control which users (or groups of users) can read, write, or execute a file or program or see the contents of a directory (folder). They are set certain ways to give programs and users access to the appropriate files and keep them out where they don't belong. When they are wrong (maybe because one program or installer set them inappropriately for another program's use), file access is denied when it should be allowed. It usually shows up as an odd symptom, because programs don't usually have good error checking for "can't access an expected file" when it is an internally used file (like a preferences file), as opposed to a file you are opening, which would produce a polite message if unavailable.

Repairing permissions sets the permission flags to the settings that Disk Utility knows they should have.

So it almost always doesn't hurt to repair permissions, and occasionally it helps.
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Cheers.

It seems fine now, but think I will Repair the permission anyway.

However...it is time for the weekend over in the UK 😀
 
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