hard drive is faking me out

[millerti]

So my hard drive "died". I hard restarted and suddenly OSX would only get to the grey loading screen, where it would stay for an eternity (I found out later that things were just going extremely slow; I could get to the login screen after a few hours and log in, but there was more waiting after that).

I took it to the Apple store and the guy I talked to advised me that my hard drive was on its last legs; believing him, I contacted Dell (from whom I bought the drive) and they graciously sent me a new one, to arrive tomorrow.

Then, yesterday, on a whim, I decided to try and boot my Vista partition. Lo and behold, everything worked fine. I installed MacDrive, a piece of software that lets me read HFS partitions from Windows, and it could access my Leopard partition fine, too. So what the hell was screwed up? I still couldn't boot into Leopard.

I used DiskWarrior to rebuild my directory, and I had it look at the hard drive too and nothing appeared to be wrong. After this, I still couldn't boot my Leopard partition.

Now I've reinstalled Leopard (over the old installation that wouldn't work) and everything appears to be fine. SO NOW FOR MY QUESTION:

Do I install the new hard drive Dell sent me? Does it sound like this hard drive is really going bad, or do you think that the hard restart I performed just corrupted something important? Also, if you think I shouldn't install the new hard drive, do you think Dell will be mad that I had them ship me a replacement?

 

[wahnula]

How ya doin' millerti

This forum is PC HDD issues, I would recommend reposting in forum603.

Best of luck!



Tony

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