Wack Hard Drive in sawtooth G4

miami craigmiami craig
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
A fellow sound engineer of mine just had to replace the internal HD that came with his G4 450.

Im not quite sure what happened to it. The drive became so rediculously slow, it was near impossible to use the computer. Everything worked, but booting up took 15 minutes, any disk read/writing brought the computer to a hault, and even after speed disking the drive in norton (booted up from a cd and it the defragging took hours and hours) the drive continued to go slow.

Now we didnt whipe the drive, there was data that was EXTREMELY important on there, so we backed it up to a new 80 gig IBM drive (which took A FULL ****ING DAY) and then just disconnected the drive.



So my thinking was, can this drive be salvaged with a clean initilization? Or did something physically happen to the drive that fuxed it. Thanks in advance

-miami craig

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    o and ao and a Posts: 579member
    Only one way to find out...initialize it
  • Reply 2 of 5
    trevormtrevorm Posts: 841member
    Yeah give it a go! I used to remeber my days of protools and SCSI drives and those things just got so fragmented over time! And therefore ran like **** <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 3 of 5
    hmurchisonhmurchison Posts: 12,436member
  • Reply 4 of 5
    mr. fantasticmr. fantastic Posts: 123member
    If you do initialize it - make sure you go into the options and select zero all data. This will will take hours to do...



    However, the sawtooth G4s had the old Quantum Maxtor drives which were total sh*t. Get a IBM DeskStar and be happy.



    FYI...Apple has since learned it's lesson with crap Maxtor drives and puts nothing but DeskStars in their high-end G4s and XServs.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    airslufairsluf Posts: 1,861member
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