Ableton Forum

hey.
there is something wrong with seagate 80gb 5400.2 rpm factory hard drive on powerbook that i got. it seems that after a certain amout of hd space is used it works very slow. its like (i quess) there are bad sectors on it and when files are written on them it starts to work slow and freezes and i often then just have to restart the powerbook.
it took me a couple of times to just format that hard drive because even the format stopped at the same percent every time. installed os x again and again after the cerain amount of hd space was used, anything that concers hard drive usage, like opening programs and files got very slow.
disk utility showed no errors.
so its pretty weird... maybe somebody had similar experiences with their hd's and could suggest something and what could cause this?

I have nothing constructive to add, unfortunately.

I have a PowerBook but it's mostly used for web surfing, coding, and graphics. Live totally blows on it. I use Live with it for very basic stuff, testing out a soft synth, editing audio, etc. Whenever I try to push the limits it doesn't take more than a nudge.

I'm using a 1.5 ghz G4 with 512 RAM, so it isn't the most formidable PB out there. But it's shitty enough to make me not want to invest money in more RAM when I have my dual 1.8 G5 tower for the real audio work.

Again, sorry I can't be any help.

Hi!

If you could take it for a more indepth analysis with a tool like Spinrite (bootable), that would help.
Also note IF it finds any errors, i would replace the disk. I do NOT have faith in disks that beings to loose sectors normally, but once used spinrite which got a drive of mine running good enough to get the data from it.

Spinrite can do some cool stuff, but start with a simple analysis, and then lets try some repairing (just in case its fixable somehow.)

edit: of course the trouble is, if spinrite don't like mac's. I dunno, is it possible to connect the hdd to a pc?

ok, thanx.
maybe i will try it with spinrite.
any thoughts what might have caused this? can bad sectors result in such behaviour?