So here's the problem:
About a month ago, while moving my powerbook from my desk to my bag, the harddrive started making a ferocious spinning noise, as if it was in overdrive mode or something. I didn't take to much notice to it, however it has repeatedly come back to haunt me. The only way to get rid of the racket is to lift the book to a certain degree, and then slowly drop it back to a stable degree...
I would have taken it to an apple store immeadiately, but i am currently in Florence, Italy on a 6 month abroad study, so I didn't have a genius bar at my immeadiate disposal.
The reason im posting this as a software issue, and prefaced this with the hardware issue, is that as of this morning, my book won't boot.
Every time the spinning noise started, the computer would catch for a second, until i re-stabilized it to the appropriate position...thus, I am in a position to believe the disks were stuck or something, not allowing data to be read.
When I powered my book this morning, after forcing a hard reset due to Skype crashing on me, and not force quiting, the book loaded to the gray apple screen. What usually happens next, is the spinning dial underneath the apple design...that, however, after 3 hours, has yet to show. The computer seems to be stuck at the introduction apple screen, and won't budge unless I do a hard reset. The spinning disk issue still persists, but stops if I re-stabilize.
I'm almost convinced that the drive is f-ed, but I'd like to know if I can somehow dump the drive's contents after replacing it...though I'm convinced I can not.
Furthermore, my iPod, the second one this month! is even more messed, as it randomly resets and wipes the drive's contents...so I can't even boot from that.
So I guess my questions are...is there any way I can boot the OS in any other fashion? Is there a safe mode of some sort in OSX? How do I replace the hard drive myself (any guides you would recommend)? Any service centers in italy?
What frustrates me the most, the MOST, is that i purchased this 'book, and the 4g ipod, about a year and 3 months ago...the iPod was rendered useless literally the day after the warranty ran out, and the book 14 months after. I'm very f-ing frustrated, seeing as this was my first apple set-up ever, after years heralding the quality of apple products. I've run through two iPod already, and I generally take good care of them. What to do.....
About a month ago, while moving my powerbook from my desk to my bag, the harddrive started making a ferocious spinning noise, as if it was in overdrive mode or something. I didn't take to much notice to it, however it has repeatedly come back to haunt me. The only way to get rid of the racket is to lift the book to a certain degree, and then slowly drop it back to a stable degree...
I would have taken it to an apple store immeadiately, but i am currently in Florence, Italy on a 6 month abroad study, so I didn't have a genius bar at my immeadiate disposal.
The reason im posting this as a software issue, and prefaced this with the hardware issue, is that as of this morning, my book won't boot.
Every time the spinning noise started, the computer would catch for a second, until i re-stabilized it to the appropriate position...thus, I am in a position to believe the disks were stuck or something, not allowing data to be read.
When I powered my book this morning, after forcing a hard reset due to Skype crashing on me, and not force quiting, the book loaded to the gray apple screen. What usually happens next, is the spinning dial underneath the apple design...that, however, after 3 hours, has yet to show. The computer seems to be stuck at the introduction apple screen, and won't budge unless I do a hard reset. The spinning disk issue still persists, but stops if I re-stabilize.
I'm almost convinced that the drive is f-ed, but I'd like to know if I can somehow dump the drive's contents after replacing it...though I'm convinced I can not.
Furthermore, my iPod, the second one this month! is even more messed, as it randomly resets and wipes the drive's contents...so I can't even boot from that.
So I guess my questions are...is there any way I can boot the OS in any other fashion? Is there a safe mode of some sort in OSX? How do I replace the hard drive myself (any guides you would recommend)? Any service centers in italy?
What frustrates me the most, the MOST, is that i purchased this 'book, and the 4g ipod, about a year and 3 months ago...the iPod was rendered useless literally the day after the warranty ran out, and the book 14 months after. I'm very f-ing frustrated, seeing as this was my first apple set-up ever, after years heralding the quality of apple products. I've run through two iPod already, and I generally take good care of them. What to do.....
