Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect, according to report

written by: Wikigiz_Fan | category: Apple, MacBook | posted: 11/23/07

Some MacBook hard drives contain fatal defect We’ve been hearing vague rumblings about potentially flawed MacBook hard drives for a day or two now, but a report from UK data-recovery firm Retrodata finally backs up all the noise with some hard data — according to the company, revision 7.0.1 Seagate drives manufactured in China have defective read / write heads that can become detached and slide across the surface of the platters, making recovery impossible. Apple says it’s only received “a few reports” of the problem, but Retrodata says the issue is severe enough to warrant a recall. MacBook users will want to fire up Apple System Profiler ASAP and check under the Serial-ATA listing to see what kind of drive they have — and probably start backing things up, just to be safe.

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Nicholas Dykes
January 3rd, 2008 03:36
I bought a brand new black macbook from apple.com in september of 2007. it had a 150 gig hard drive 2gig ram and shipped from china. abbout 3 months after i bought it, it froze up during use and nothing would work, no force quit, no curser, nothing. i turned off the computer and after a minute started it back up, and all i’ve gotten is a grey screen with a folder with a question mark in the middle. i was at work and looked like an idiot frantically trying to get my laptop working and then realized i lost everything on my hard drive. apple better make this right!!!!