Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008?

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd
Subject	Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008?
Date	2016-03-14 07:13 +1100
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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote 
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

>> Its clearly got a problem, I'd replace it. 
 
> Thanks. I'll let my client know. He might be better off 
> to get a new machine since it's from 2008 (old to me, 
> and he won't be able to run newer stuff). :)

Yeah, the problem could well be outside the drive. 

Not hard to try another drive in the machine and see if that fixes it tho.

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A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2016-03-12 16:53 -0800
  Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-03-13 14:29 +1300
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