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title: "Are PowerBook hard drives supposed to sound like Amiga floppy drives?"
date: 2004-09-17T21:37:14-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2004/09/17/are-powerbook-hard-drives-supposed-to-sound-like-amiga-floppy-drives/
author: Les Orchard
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# Are PowerBook hard drives supposed to sound like Amiga floppy drives?

Ugh.  PowerBook hard drive is going click... click... click... click... and all the while, the system is frozen.  I think I may have accidentally banged the left corner of the thing one too many times.  Had this happen once before with my old iBook, but thanks to AppleCare I got a brand new (and 5 GB larger) hard drive gratis.  This time, I seem to remember having purchased AppleCare (I'm too anally cautious not to), but local Apple Store drones didn't seem to find this serial number in the database and I might just have forgotten to send in a registration card at some point.  Ugh.  Hoping I can find some proof, somewhere in my basement boxes that proves I shelled out for the protection racket.

Otherwise, maybe I'll be using this as an excuse to get a new 15“ PowerBook, probably just in time to miss new models being released a week later.  Of course, I could probably just buy a new hard drive and self-install, which would be much cheaper and much less fun.

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                <a href="#comment-221084512" class="permalink"><time datetime="2004-09-18T00:25:16">2004-09-18T00:25:16</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Had this happen to me once, dropped the TiBook flat from the desk to the floor. clicketty clicketty... Time for a change. Backup backup... :-(</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221084516" class="permalink"><time datetime="2004-09-18T04:39:46">2004-09-18T04:39:46</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Clicking bad. Backup ASAP and get a drive replacement.</div>
            
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                    <a class="avatar name" rel="nofollow" 
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                <a href="#comment-221084518" class="permalink"><time datetime="2004-09-18T06:37:46">2004-09-18T06:37:46</time></a>
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            <div class="content">I sometimes miss that sound...

Don't miss "Disk validation error" at all though ;-)</div>
            
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