Mini died

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Jun 062007

My Mac Mini has died :(

It failed to boot one day.
Booting from setup disc, then running Disk Utility showed loads of disk errors, and it couldn’t fix them.
Hardware diagnostics said all was OK.
Re-installing didn’t help as disk was still very corrupt.
Single-user mode and several iterations of fsck didn’t fix it.

Ended up repartitioning disk, reinstalling the OS and all was well for while, then same symptoms… can’t boot.

Seems running a Mini 24/7 for a year is not good for it.

Looks like a visit to the Apple Store is in order…. and (of course) AppleCare just expired :(

Posted by Adrian at 06:21 Tagged with:

2 Responses to “Mini died”

  1. Dom says:
    June 6, 2007 at 07:17

    :( That doesn’t bode well for my mini. That said, the 1Gb hard drive that was strapped to mine and that died when I moved to deptford seems to have suddenly started working again since I moved to Colchester. Maybe it doesn’t like SE8. If Apple care doesn’t fix it might I recomend moving house as a solution?

  2. Dom says:
    June 6, 2007 at 09:07

    1Tb drive even :D

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