Hard Drive failures
My experience with Leopard:
1. I installed Leopard in my Imac of 18 mths old. A few days later the Imac had totally died.
2. I decided to buy a new Imac (I was thinking of upgrading anyway) and use the hard drive from my old Imac as a backup disk with Time Machine.
3. After a couple of weeks problems started: BU could not be found after reboot, Disk utilities would not find disks...I reinstalled Leopard and the same problems with BU occurred; I also did a clean install. Then the output from the headphone socket failed. I was advised by support to return it to the store for repair. Genius advised that the hard drive and motherboard were defective and gave me a new Imac.
4. The replacement lasted less than two days before strange things started to happen and then eventually I got question marks on boot up. Apple support gave me some tests to perform before the question mark issue and advised that the hard drive was defective. Once again I returned it to the store and the Imac was replaced. This time with Leopard preinstalled.
It may be a coincidence that the two macs had problems while using an external hard drive (from previous Imac in an enclosure) but I have not used it with this Imac.
Incidently on both Imacs, Disk utiility and Tech tool showed not problems with the drives or file structures.
Should I take a chance and reconnect my external drive and use Time machine
My experience with Leopard:
1. I installed Leopard in my Imac of 18 mths old. A few days later the Imac had totally died.
2. I decided to buy a new Imac (I was thinking of upgrading anyway) and use the hard drive from my old Imac as a backup disk with Time Machine.
3. After a couple of weeks problems started: BU could not be found after reboot, Disk utilities would not find disks...I reinstalled Leopard and the same problems with BU occurred; I also did a clean install. Then the output from the headphone socket failed. I was advised by support to return it to the store for repair. Genius advised that the hard drive and motherboard were defective and gave me a new Imac.
4. The replacement lasted less than two days before strange things started to happen and then eventually I got question marks on boot up. Apple support gave me some tests to perform before the question mark issue and advised that the hard drive was defective. Once again I returned it to the store and the Imac was replaced. This time with Leopard preinstalled.
It may be a coincidence that the two macs had problems while using an external hard drive (from previous Imac in an enclosure) but I have not used it with this Imac.
Incidently on both Imacs, Disk utiility and Tech tool showed not problems with the drives or file structures.
Should I take a chance and reconnect my external drive and use Time machine