[iBook] endless spinning cursor

Matthew Faulds mattfaulds at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 8 19:28:34 PST 2005


Don't want to scare you but this sounds horribly familiar. Have you checked 
the SMART status of your HD? My 12" ibook had similar behaviour and the 
drive suddenly failed.

Matt



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From: "R. Hefner" <rshefner_uk at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [iBook] endless spinning cursor
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:10:34 -0500

Lately my iBook has been experiencing the endless spinning cursor problem 
and the only thing I can do to get it to stop is push the off button for a 
few secs and then reboot. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I had a disk 
mounted and was trying to access the info on the disk. Then this weekend I 
had the same problem when trying to access my external drive. It only seems 
to happen in these two instances. Does anyone know what causes this and what 
I should do? I was actually using the external drive to backup all my mp3s 
etc. so I can upgrade from Jaguar (10.2.8) to Panther. Might this upgrade 
fix my problem if I do a clean install? BTW, I have run Disk Utility on both 
my drives and no problems found.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Ronda






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