Hey all. I own a macbook pro I bought in may of 2007, and this is the second time I've had hard drive problems. A week ago, I was just installing a copy of world of warcraft, and suddenly my whole computer froze up. I couldn't do anything, so after 5 minutes I force shut it down. I waited a minute, then started it up again. I had it on auto-login and it was stuck on a blue screen, and kept showing the swirly restart sign (not beachball, the gray swirly). It was like an endless reboot, but not really. So I shut it down again, booted up from my leopard CD, did disk utility repair disk and repair permissions, blah blah. The problem stayed. So I knew I had everything backed up in time machine, so I reformatted the disk. After I reformatted, everything was working fine for a day. I was in the middle of browsing in safari and my computer locked up, same as the first incident. I thought, aww great! I did the same troubleshooting I did last time, and I still had everything backed up, and reformatted AGAIN. Now, I'm on that reformat with leopard, and everything has gone fine. Every once in a while the hard drive clicks for up to 10 seconds straight, and my computer slows down when it does that, but doesn't freeze up totally like before.
Oh, and this has happened to me once before on my MBP. I sent it in to apple and they replaced the hard drive. I would do the same thing, but my warranty expired. I read up on the clicks of death and I saw that it's a sign of a failing hard drive. I went on OWC and bought a new 250GB hard drive, and i'm waiting for that to ship. My question is - Should I install it myself using an ifixit guide or send it to the local mac technician? Is it that hard to replace a hard drive?
Thanks,
Andy
Oh, and this has happened to me once before on my MBP. I sent it in to apple and they replaced the hard drive. I would do the same thing, but my warranty expired. I read up on the clicks of death and I saw that it's a sign of a failing hard drive. I went on OWC and bought a new 250GB hard drive, and i'm waiting for that to ship. My question is - Should I install it myself using an ifixit guide or send it to the local mac technician? Is it that hard to replace a hard drive?
Thanks,
Andy