I find hard disks to be cheap to replace here. So when I find one with a bad block I never hesitate to pop in a new one and move on. To pan Apple for a component that they didn't make seems a tad harsh.
My last 40GB HD for a laptop cost 49 bucks...
Bob
Hi Paul,
I haven't been here for a while. Had to re-register. Have been having PB troubles for over a year and that has kept me busy shipping my PB back and forth.
On 8/27/2004 I purchased a PB G4, 1.5 ghz with 1.5 GB of ram installed. Around Sept of 2005 i had a kernel panic. Said how to restart which I did. Ran TT pro and test came back OK. I had another kernel panic a couple months later. Now foolish me, having never had any trouble with previous Macs I DID NOT get the Apple care. In fact I am working now on a 7 year old g3 Pismo and just retired a 12 your old 6400 that was still working tho it did not have much to work with. So on or about 2/21/06 I received a warning that the HD was failing. Took it into the local Genius Bar and they were to busy to fix it so said they would ship it to apple. I paid a flat fee of $326.00 to repair anything that was wrong with it. It took them about 3 days to get a BOX to ship it to Apple for repair. They replaced the HD, the clutch barrel Assy and the inverter cable. Returned it to me. On 3/27/06 same thing happened. Kernel panic, could not restart, HD making grinding noises etc. Called Apple and they picked it up and did not return it to me until 4/21/06. They returned it to me saying they could find nothing wrong and could not duplicate problem. On 5/19/06 same thing happened got HD failure warning. Called Apple and the tech tried to help me save from it but it just would not get to HD. We worked on it for quit some time over phone. He sent box for pickup as I am old and disabled and cannot just haul this thing around every couple months. They replaced the HD AGAIN!!
Now it failed AGAIN on 5/05/07. Ran TT PRO had a bad block so I was going to fix it myself. Zeroed it out, reinstalled Mac OS X On 5/10/07, did all the updates, ran DFA, Installed TT Pro version 4.5.2 all looked well until last nite 5/11/07,about 9pm and it hung. Took me 2 hours to get it started and run DFA and it said, Invalid key length, the underlying task reported failure on exit, Volume 1 could not be repaired. Again it took forever to reload so I could get disk out and shut down.
This morning I ran TT Pro again and it reported a bad block AGAIN!!!!!! So now I am zeroing out the drive AGAIN and will have to reinstall every thing again. I am so sick of this piece of crap. It is a lemon, Apple did not make all repairs, something in it is possessed and Apple should take it back and put it in the MUSEUM OF SHAME! I cannot even begin to explain my feeling about that machine, made in CHINA of course. I am so sick of installing a new system only to have it fail within months or this time days.
I am old, 72, disabled, paid top dollar for a piece of crap I am stuck with. Had I the money I would send it to Apple with my thoughts on where they can put it.
We have had Macs for years and right now my daughter and grandkids have 5 working Macs, g4, imac, 3 g4 PB's and 1 g4 ibook. All loaded with photo software running out to external drives and music software. Plus she has a museum of Macs from the beginning of time.
Just had to tell someone who maybe cares,
One Sick Mac Owner!!!!!!!

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