Intel Mac :: 27 - 2011/2012- Hard Disk Noise?
Jun 30, 2012
I have searched and googled in different forums and found this issue but never found a good resolution or explanation. many of the posts were related to 2009 or around that time. since yesterday I started to hear a noise like clicking or something (it's a hard disk noise that we all know and have heard) from my hard disk. I have no clue where it comes from. my mac is absolutly idle and no huge process or I/O is going on. its happing once in 10 minutes maybe. Well, I want to start observing it on when exactly it happens! but to me it should not happen!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 5, 2012
I have Mid 2011 iMac of 500GB hard disk capacity. Is it possible to add/increase the hard disk capacity internally, say add another 500GB or replace it with 1 TB drive?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 22, 2012
Had since May/June last year i5 13" and only since I applied all updates few weeks ago it seems to be louder than it was before?Â
It sounds like a fan but isn't... obviously. Right hand side of track pad, and covering it, in fact just touching it dampens it to barely audible. Is that normal or has something gone a bit weird? A constant fan noise, which isn't the fan is now there permanently.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 23, 2012
i am interested in buying the 2012 Macbook Pro 15 inch model and plan to upgrade the 750GB 5400rpm hard disk to a 7200rpm.what model is being used?
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Sep 8, 2014
How do I format a new (replacement) hard drive without a disk for a 2012 13" Mac Book Pro? I was running 10.7.5 Lion.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), iOS 7, Just replaced a failed hard drive.
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Jun 7, 2012
My 20.5 inch 2.7GHz iMac is about a year old and has recently started making a low humming/buzzing noise from the top right corner, near the SuperDrive bay. The top of hte iMac feels quite warm when it makes the noise and usually stops if I hold my hand on top of the computer. Is this something I should be contacting AppleCare about?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.7GHz, Core i5, 4GB RAM
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Mar 31, 2012
why my mbp 2011 have a bad sector on hard disk for second time,,,just 3 months after i rplace the first one.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 10, 2009
I usually just turn off my monitor at night but for some reason, the HD constantly makes spinning noise even then the computer hasn't been used for hours ( i don't run time machine ).
Is there any way to tell what process is causing this stupid HD activity? My previous Dell machine was so much more quiet than this POS. I prefer not having to explicitly put the machine the sleep every time.
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Feb 26, 2008
can you hear your hard drive seeking? I don't know if it's always been there, but I can just faintly hear mine now.
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Jun 20, 2009
Once in a while when I tilt my MBP, the hard disk will make a brief click noise. Also, I can trigger the noise by closing the lid, and then tilting the MBP. Is this normal? Is this just part of the built-in accelerometer?
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Oct 25, 2010
I have my iMac since August. I use it a lot, and I've noticed that the hard disk makes read and write noise a lot of times, even using Safari, for example. It looks like fragmented. What can I do?
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Feb 18, 2012
I tried installing Maya 2012 on my new iMac that I got 3 days ago. It gave me an error at the end of installation process saying I have a newer version and is not compatible.
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Jun 13, 2012
I recently purchased a new MacBook pro 13" (2012 model) yesterday. I wanted to ask if it is normal that when I press the start button that the superdrive should make a noise (as if its loading or readjusting) prior to loading onto the log-in screen?
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MacBook Pro, MacBook pro 13" (Mid 2012)
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Apr 25, 2012
As title. Heard a lot about the temp sensor that might cause this an issue? Â If its a problem, would it work if i installed it as a 2nd drive?
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iMac
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May 14, 2012
At times my iMac (27" July 2011) starts making loud fan noise with mouse showing turning rainbow. The only way to stop is forced shutdown by pushing back button for a while. Yesterday I switched to widget screen and saw hard drive fan speed > 4000 rpm without CPU and temps by on the high side.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Apr 8, 2012
I'm a first time contributor so please forgive me if I seem a little "wet behind the ears"...I have a 2011 iMac (which replaced my 2006 G5 iSight model) and a 500gb Time Capsule.I have my iTunes Library (which is approximately 150gb) on the Time Capsule but, given the relatively modest 500gb on the capsule there is not enough room to back up my computer.I have been looking at 2tb external firewire hard drives and I am hoping to move my iTunes library onto one of these and then use the capsule to back up my computer with Time Machine (the Mac has an internal 500gb hard drive). I'm hoping this will be a relatively straightforward task! The downside with this is of course, I will not have a back up of my iTunes library...with the hardware that i have does anybody have any advise or better ideas!?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Time Capsule, External Hard Drive
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Jan 31, 2012
I've connected my new Iomega Minimax with a firewire cable directly to my iMAc but nothing appears on my desktop.
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iMac
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Oct 25, 2008
I just got my macbook pro yesterday and ran it all yesterday not hearing anything. Today when I woke it from sleep I could clearly hear the fan or hard drive going. I was in a quiet room and it's quite annoying.
istat says its at 2000 rpm so thats when I started thinking it may be the hard disk. It does pulse every now and then but thats even while it's just sitting idle.
I guess I could live with it but its just annoying. Anyone else having this?
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Feb 7, 2012
Mac Mini but there appears to be some changes on the layout out since my Mac Mini 2009 model. I am trying to see where the software Logic is set up or stored. And I cant find even how to get to Library.Its like its all changed. When I go to Finder (is this library?), under devices all I see is a Firefox icon and my External Hard Drive.But where is the main drive within the mac?? I used to be able to drag an Icon for my hard drive, ex hard drive to the dext top and it wont let me.Â
Processor 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5Â
Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3Â
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MBÂ
Hard Drive 500GBÂ Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4GB Mem & 2.5Ghz i5
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May 22, 2012
My Hard Disk is nearly full, and I would like to know if there is any way to upgrade it to a larger disk?
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iMac 2.66GHz i5, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
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May 24, 2012
My hard disk has been indicated as saturated for the past weeK. Despite the fact that I freed Space (90 Gigas of movies) the next day when I opened my mac the Hard disk saturated warning comes up, and when I read the information on the hard disk; effectively there are 0 octets available. It is as if someone is using my computer to store data.
I haven't downloaded any new files and I haven't been working on any stuff that requires huge amounts of space. The situation is that even if I want to save a letter or any small file I have to make space simultaneously. I tried going into preferences to see if there are any malwares installed but it won't open, another thing is that 'mail' no longer downloads my emails so I have to consult them directly on Gmail.
I would be most grateful for any advice or informationon haw to solve this problem,
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 11, 2012
Yeah, I know its probably way too early for me to be asking this question but if I purchase the new MBP (specifically the 15" 2.3 256 SSD) will I (in the future) be able to replace the hard drive with a bigger one? I'm asking because I don't have $3500 to spend on the best optoin available. Some people are suggesting that parts may now be soldered in place to make these laptops so thin. Â
I'm not really expecting an answer today, I'll buy in the next few weeks, but in case anyone feels like cracking open their brand new baby and telling us about it, feel free to share (and post pictures!)Â
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Jun 18, 2012
I just bought a new MacBook Pro. I had a 2010 MBP and kept the hard drive (Hitachi 500gb 7200 rpm) from that computer. It ws running 10.7 and worked fine. It still boots up perfectly on my MacPro so I know it works.
I tried to boot the new MacBook Pro using the old drive but I get a circle with a line through it. I have tried to boot using Firewire and even installed it into the new MacBook Pro. I then tried to re-install OS 10.7. I just downloaded it from the App Store for my MacPro so I tried to use it to re-install. It will not work on this new Macbook Pro. I had to download a version specific to this computer (using the "recover" disk). I takes 1.5 hours to download and then it still didn't work. When the computer reboots after the download and restarts I get the same **** circle with a line through it. The new "manual" is a joke. There is no reference to upgrading drives or memory. Did Apple decide to make their new laptops inaccessible to the owner? I can't find any info online and at the Apple store today they told me they knew of no reason that the drive wouldn't work.
Info:MacBookPro, Windows XP
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Feb 2, 2012
I am in need of some cleaning up of my hard drive. Here is what I have done so far. I purchase a 2 TB hard drive, I also have a 500 GB, both external. I have created 2, 1TB partitions. One is for the time machine and the other is for my music, imovies, large artwork files and random documents. Now that all of that is off of the internal hard drive, I need to clean up the dirve do that when I look at the drive, it doesn't say 2 GB available.
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iMovie '08, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 1, 2012
Gray screen and 'prohibited' logo appeared today without apparent reason.Forced a power down by holding power button. Restarted....eventually reached user login screen but froze again on login attempt after password entered.
Restrated again by forced power down but only got gray screen and spinning gear.
Have now spent many hours going through most conceivable options including...
following instructions on http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 re gray screen troubleshooting
have disconnected peripherals; reset smu, smc, and pram;
safe boot w shift key did nothing; Â
safe boot shift+v produced a screen of text that got as far as com.apple.launchd 1
but then several lines of text appeared repeating twice eaxctly same, each headed by disk0s2: I/O error. with [ErrNo 5], then
dyld: Library not loaded:Â Â and Reason: no suitable image found
final line ends with The System bootstrapper has crashed: Trace/BPT trap:5Â
I have tried installing from the original install disk several times but holding C key or Option/Alt key or D key gets no response and I cannot get the install disk to eject either holding down mouse button, eject buttonÂ
I haven't done any recent upgrades or installed new software, no new peripherals attached.
Is this a dead hard drive or does someone have other suggestions that might work?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 7, 2012
My hard and back up disk both failed on the same day, strange but the kids were on the computer and things happen.Running Mac OS 10.6 I paid $800 to "super geeks" to recover the pics > 30,000 (many duplicates)I will receive a 500 gig external drive from them today via Fed Ex with the pics recovered . My plan is to move them to my iMac (had a new HD put in) but I do not want to transfer 30,000 pics priorto running duplicate annihilator & thumbnail annihilator on the new external drive. Is there an easy way to do this > looking for help?Can I run the programs on the recovered drive I will receive today prior to my transferring? Or is there a more efficient way of doing this.
Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Apr 2, 2012
My Macbook crashed so I tried everything to restart it. what finally worked is opening it from the install disk. I performed a "repair disk", and after saying "invalid node structure" and "invalid record count", it says it cannot repair the disk. I don't know what step to take next. How do I see if time machine has backed my files up? Do I need to erase the HD and reinstall?
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MacBook
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May 7, 2012
I had to power off my iMac by Pressing the power key and holding it several times over the last few weeks. The last time it wouldn't reboot - I'd just get an apple icon. When I tried a safe boot I'd get the icon and it would change to a no entry sign.Next I started up from the snow leopard installation disk with the intent of repairing the iMac disk. The installation disk worked but when I opened disk utility it only found the installation disk. It didn't find the iMac disk.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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May 12, 2012
How to recover space on the hard drive
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jun 7, 2012
A hard disk icon started appearing on my iMac yesterday at log in. I have also started having error messages appear about random software or hardware e.g. error message advising mouse is not connected when it clearly is.
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iMac
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