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TheBritishBloke

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Jul 21, 2009
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So I installed a new 1TB HDD in my Mac and used my time machine backup to put all my files back onto it, and I kept getting beach balling every time I did something, especially when playing music you could hear it like suddenly stop then start again 2 seconds later.

So I went and bought a new completely different 1TB HDD, and it's doing exactly the same thing. I've tried doing disk permissions, PRAM, repair disk, Safe Mode, new user account; everything. But still it's not working.

Anyone got any advice? I've just made another partition on my drive so I'm going to install a clean copy of Lion on it and try doing the same thing on there.
 
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