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originally posted by: NightFlight
a reply to: JamesChessman
Clean your computer's cache. I let mine go for two years, forgot to clean it. My computer slowed to a backwards crawl. Cleaned the cache and wow! everything came back to normal.
You should check in to investing in a solid state drive (SSD). I have an old laptop that had a 640 GB 5400 rpm HD and I replaced it with a 1TB Samsung SSD. Sure did make a difference. Before, the laptop would take four to five minutes to boot and then more times than not it had the blue screen of death. Now, 20 seconds, tops...
Its easy, too. All you need is the proper migration software and a SATA cable and you're set.
originally posted by: rounda
Looks like you already tried to repair the disk. You can also try clearing the PRAM and NVRAM. Thats really the extent of what you can do for troubleshooting a Mac. The price you pay for the walled garden.
www.lifewire.com...
There are a couple methods for retrieving data.
1. Get a PCI to USB hard drive adapter, remove the hard drive, plug it into another computer with the adapter, copy everything over. A second Mac is ideal, a Linux system is doable, and you'll need software to read the apple file system on Windows.
2. Buy a new hard drive, take the old one out, put the new one in, install OSX over the network, use the PCI to USB adapter to plug in the old drive, copy everything over.
3. You create a live Linux USB stick, boot from that, plug in an external hard drive, copy everything over.
Do yourself a favor, just get a windows PC and install Linux on it.
originally posted by: Gothmog
Hard drive starts booting slow .
Then the situation degrades to powering off at boot.
My bet :
1) Corrupt system files .
2) Flailin and a'failin hard drive.
(shh...the first one is there just to give you a bit of hope)
originally posted by: JamesChessman
originally posted by: Gothmog
Hard drive starts booting slow .
Then the situation degrades to powering off at boot.
My bet :
1) Corrupt system files .
2) Flailin and a'failin hard drive.
(shh...the first one is there just to give you a bit of hope)
Haha thanks! Well the overall performance has been fine.
Occasionally if I left it on for too many days or weeks, she would gradually become more sluggish, until a full shut down and restart (or a couple of times) would restore her back to proper speed.
And occasionally I’d run a few programs to scan and clean everything.
So overall the performance was always fine.
And I’m not sure exactly what happened here but we could probably say some of the reason, is that I probably hadn’t shut down and restarted for too long of a time.
Also to be honest I do think I got some malware from the mentioned websites of ill repute, despite being based on digital photos, which I thought was pretty benign.
Plus I probably broke the boot-up process further by interrupting the boot-up a few times, I bet it’s why it shuts down during it.
But anyway even such a combination of factors still doesn’t seem so terrible that I must jump to the effort of data extraction of the terabyte internal hdd.
And plus like I said, Apple Support was wasting my time on purpose, I now believe.
So putting everything aside, I think I need to look at the possibility of hopefully repairing the trouble-spots of the boot-up, etc., without wiping the hdd.
So I’m going to explore this idea including the ideas in this thread.
And I think MacOS can commonly be reinstalled over the current install, to eliminate problems in the os... but without actually deleting saved data, at all.
Anyways thanks for the input guys.
I actually think that some of you guys are giving much better advice than Apple Support did
originally posted by: MidnightHawk
If it were a PC I could probably chime in. I have apple products in the house but don't work on them like I do on the PC. (I have an IPad and my wife has an IMac.
Anyway there is this independent guy on YouTube that has a store in New York that fixes all kinds of things Apple. He could probably get you up and running in a few minutes. I enjoy watching his videos slamming Apple for the lies they constantly tell that things are not fixable when they are extremely easy to fix.
Here is the channel, maybe he has some info on your problem. I don't know. Anyway I hope you start feeling well. When I would visit Mexico before I moved here I would always get dead sick. You can't trust the water, or the vegetables. Drink purified water, and if you eat out never let them give you stuff like onion, tomato, cabbage, etc with your food. No one I know disinfects the food properly. They use dirty/contaminated water to irrigate the food, so you gonna have all types of serious infections in the vegetables. I would recommend buying your own food and cooking/disinfecting everything yourself. People here tend to cook dirty, cross contaminate, and handle money while handling raw and cooked food all at the same time. Not that it doesn't happen in the States, it seems to be more sanitary there than here when it comes to drinking and eating.
Louis Rossman