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I have to say it's a pretty unusual problem - just not something I've heard of before. It really should boot either way! If anything it's much harder for it to boot externally than internally...
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I can't agree with you more, Dave. This is exactly why we're pretty
I think I am going to get the laptop replaced and if the drive fails on the new one too, we'll probably blame the Hitachi Travelstar 320 GB 7200 RPM disk. |
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But the drive did work when you just installed Snow Leopard to it, no? So... I just don't get it.
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The drive when placed inside the computer acts weird in many ways:
- does not let disk utility erase/partition it (hangs and sometimes errors) - does not let the OS-X installer install to it (hangs after a minute) - does not boot up even if it has a fresh copy of OS-X The same drive when placed outside using USB or Firewire does everything normally. |
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Interesting. OK - yeah, sounds like a drive issue. Very weird!
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I did get a laptop replacement and after putting in the Hitachi Travelstar 320GB 7200RPM drive in it, the same behavior was observed. I have concluded that the problem is with the drive when placed internally on the Macbook Pro.
The same drive works just fine with the Black Macbook which I am upgrading from. Dave, thanks for your help! |
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It doesn't surprise me that the replacement MBP showed the same behavior - that was a bit of a hail mary pass on the part of the AppleCare guy. Very strange that the drive seems incompatible, though! Maybe it's just that one sample?
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