Well, I think my HDD crashed on my mid-2007 iMac. At least, when going into recovery mode and selecting restore from backup, it allows me to select my backup drive, date of backup, then when it goes to the screen to select a destination drive it just shows a "Searching for drives" message. Also, don't see my HDD in disk utilities. I thinking the HDD is bad OR maybe some type of controller on the mother board. Any body have any suggestions on how to verify it is the hard drive? OR, anybody with similar experience that can confirm (e.g. been a while sense I had a HDD fail)?
Note, I did just upgrade to Mountain Lion this past weekend. Always like to take a clean baseline backup before upgrading to a major release. Had a heck of time getting the backup completed, basically the whole computer would become very unresponsive and time machine would freeze about 30GB into the backup; think it was into the large DVD files. I did some googling and finally found something that worked; disabled the "put drives to sleep when possible" setting and the backup completed without issue (thank you jesus!!!!).
Upgraded to Mountain Lion, and computer has been running without issue for a couple of days, initially quite a few spinning beach balls, but those seemed to had subsided; assuming that was due to spotlight indexing, etc.. Then wife called said there where "HP Message Center" messages from the past all over the screen (e.g. low ink cartridge, ...) and she tried to start FireFox and it just started spinning the beach ball, so she shut it down. I came home, turned on computer, white screen, went into recovery mode on its own.........
Note, I did just upgrade to Mountain Lion this past weekend. Always like to take a clean baseline backup before upgrading to a major release. Had a heck of time getting the backup completed, basically the whole computer would become very unresponsive and time machine would freeze about 30GB into the backup; think it was into the large DVD files. I did some googling and finally found something that worked; disabled the "put drives to sleep when possible" setting and the backup completed without issue (thank you jesus!!!!).
Upgraded to Mountain Lion, and computer has been running without issue for a couple of days, initially quite a few spinning beach balls, but those seemed to had subsided; assuming that was due to spotlight indexing, etc.. Then wife called said there where "HP Message Center" messages from the past all over the screen (e.g. low ink cartridge, ...) and she tried to start FireFox and it just started spinning the beach ball, so she shut it down. I came home, turned on computer, white screen, went into recovery mode on its own.........