OK, so let me be up front. I'm an idiot. I dropped my MBP off of a chair on Friday afternoon.
I have a 15" Unibody MBP (Core 2 Duo), purchased around January of last year, so a late '09 model. (no applecare- im an idiot twice, i know)
The next day, the computer worked just fine, but when going through my iTunes i started hearing the HD making noise and i was getting a lot of beachball whenever i tried to do anything beyond web browsing, really. My roommate had dropped his old MB before and it had exhibited similar symptoms, then ran beautifully for another 2 years with a new hard drive- I figured that's what I needed.
I picked up a Seagate momentus 500GB drive (7200RPM) and swapped it in (incidentally, the one in there was also a seagate momentus, but a 5400/250GB).
I booted it up from the recovery dvd and tried to recover from my time machine backup (from early friday). this was going agonizingly slow, then it crashed (this was Saturday night). I tried it again (Sunday morning) with the same result.
Then i thought- let me just install the OS and i'll use the migration assistant or time machine to recover my stuff once the OS is loaded!
OS install failed. I partitioned/formatted the drive AGAIN then installed again and it worked (took quite while, but i haven't installed snow leopard in a while, so maybe that's normal).
I then tried to use the migration assistant- crashed.
I broke down and made a new user and tried grabbing stuff from Time Machine selectively. Small files were OK but anything beyond 200-300MB total would take a long time and I could see my external spinning down, then picking up, then spinning down, then picking up, and often it would just cause the whole computer to beachball. I tried another external (same model & capacity as my Time Machine drive) and same problem.
I tried both on my roommate's new 13" MBP and they copied files very quickly and without issue. So while it seems my backup and all my files are probably intact, that's about the best I can say.
Generally, the computer seems OK (then again, all I'm doing is web browsing so far since I don't have any of my files), but I can't recover anything from my backups! Originally I thought maybe the new HD was bad, but it seems to be fine and I don't know how else to test it (did a verify disk in disk utility). I'm starting to think I damaged something on the system board related to the USB host or something.
Any ideas before I go to the genius bar? I'm pretty bummed about this whole thing.
Update: I tried downloading an album and loading into iTunes- download went ok, ZIP extraction was slow but not terrible, and when I tried to load it into iTunes, i was forced to power off my computer- it beachballed for about 5-7 minutes. So, guess it's not OK.
HELP!
I have a 15" Unibody MBP (Core 2 Duo), purchased around January of last year, so a late '09 model. (no applecare- im an idiot twice, i know)
The next day, the computer worked just fine, but when going through my iTunes i started hearing the HD making noise and i was getting a lot of beachball whenever i tried to do anything beyond web browsing, really. My roommate had dropped his old MB before and it had exhibited similar symptoms, then ran beautifully for another 2 years with a new hard drive- I figured that's what I needed.
I picked up a Seagate momentus 500GB drive (7200RPM) and swapped it in (incidentally, the one in there was also a seagate momentus, but a 5400/250GB).
I booted it up from the recovery dvd and tried to recover from my time machine backup (from early friday). this was going agonizingly slow, then it crashed (this was Saturday night). I tried it again (Sunday morning) with the same result.
Then i thought- let me just install the OS and i'll use the migration assistant or time machine to recover my stuff once the OS is loaded!
OS install failed. I partitioned/formatted the drive AGAIN then installed again and it worked (took quite while, but i haven't installed snow leopard in a while, so maybe that's normal).
I then tried to use the migration assistant- crashed.
I broke down and made a new user and tried grabbing stuff from Time Machine selectively. Small files were OK but anything beyond 200-300MB total would take a long time and I could see my external spinning down, then picking up, then spinning down, then picking up, and often it would just cause the whole computer to beachball. I tried another external (same model & capacity as my Time Machine drive) and same problem.
I tried both on my roommate's new 13" MBP and they copied files very quickly and without issue. So while it seems my backup and all my files are probably intact, that's about the best I can say.
Generally, the computer seems OK (then again, all I'm doing is web browsing so far since I don't have any of my files), but I can't recover anything from my backups! Originally I thought maybe the new HD was bad, but it seems to be fine and I don't know how else to test it (did a verify disk in disk utility). I'm starting to think I damaged something on the system board related to the USB host or something.
Any ideas before I go to the genius bar? I'm pretty bummed about this whole thing.
Update: I tried downloading an album and loading into iTunes- download went ok, ZIP extraction was slow but not terrible, and when I tried to load it into iTunes, i was forced to power off my computer- it beachballed for about 5-7 minutes. So, guess it's not OK.
HELP!
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