FAO Mac bods (again!)

[The Boosh!]

Right basically my HDD is corrupt (dunno how but it is)

tried repairing it by booting from the install disk and pressing repair disk in disk utility.

its basically told me it can't be repaired...

Could i just reinstall mac osx completely and boot from my time machine backup so i wont loose any data and my disk will be fixed?

also, if this doesn't fix it can i go back to apple and get them to replace it?

 

[Brown.]

Try the reboot.... mind you you may end up loosing all if it is corrupt.... have you got apple care?....or even still find a apple repair centre and just go down..... that way is better then ringing apple

these guys are contactable out side apple, they will then tell you if its warrenty worthy, they will ring apple
http://www.atcomputers.co.uk/contact.html


to fix ya disk partitioning a small section, say 5gb then install OS on the remaining partition my get around a duff hd

 

[turnby]

I would do a clean install from your install discs when and if that is successful you can use migration assistant to make use of your time machine backup after the OS reinstall

 

[Soph]

EXACTLY the same problem I had. It wouldn't reinstall OS X either. Had to have a new HDD.

Just remember, HDDs are the same whether it's a PC or Mac, so they will break on macs too.

 

[Charlieboy]

Windows FTW Luke!!

 

[Soph]

Windows FTW Luke!!

Why, they use similar components, but with a less stable Operating System. Windows FTL more like.

 

[Brown.]

Windows FTW Luke!!

Why, they use similar components, but with a less stable Operating System. Windows FTL more like.

In before the lock

 

[The Boosh!]

Right. i followed these instructions on this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1592666

fourth post down. Its currently reinstalling OsX.

Ihaven't a clue if iv done it right though when will it ask me to restore from time machine?