Any advice on the following would be appreciated:
While editing a fairly extensive itunes library, the computer seemed to freeze up. Forced a reboot (with power button at back). Chimes, gets to screen with the apple logo and spinning wheel, where it sits for 5 mins or so, then goes to a light blue blank screen, and no further. Sometimes here it will power itself down after some time.
I can force boot into firewire disk mode (T), but the drive will not be recognised as an external firewire drive on my laptop (tried 2 cables). Also if I boot with the option key and load up the OSX install disc, try to do an install at the point where you are promted to choose a disc to install to, nothing shows up.
I'm presumming that this means a dead HDD.
I'm not too distressed as most of my important data is on other drives, but it would be nice to revive the drive, even if it gets decommisioned to an external case.
Any ideas before I go though the arduous task of dismantling the case.
1st generation Mac Mini 1.42Ghz
512mgb ram
80gb HDD (I think it was a Toshiba)
thanks
While editing a fairly extensive itunes library, the computer seemed to freeze up. Forced a reboot (with power button at back). Chimes, gets to screen with the apple logo and spinning wheel, where it sits for 5 mins or so, then goes to a light blue blank screen, and no further. Sometimes here it will power itself down after some time.
I can force boot into firewire disk mode (T), but the drive will not be recognised as an external firewire drive on my laptop (tried 2 cables). Also if I boot with the option key and load up the OSX install disc, try to do an install at the point where you are promted to choose a disc to install to, nothing shows up.
I'm presumming that this means a dead HDD.
I'm not too distressed as most of my important data is on other drives, but it would be nice to revive the drive, even if it gets decommisioned to an external case.
Any ideas before I go though the arduous task of dismantling the case.
1st generation Mac Mini 1.42Ghz
512mgb ram
80gb HDD (I think it was a Toshiba)
thanks