Luckily my Time Machine backup was still up to date so I immediately went to Best Buy, purchased a new hard drive, and restored everything from Time Machine to the new drive. Symptoms such as this, especially when they get worse and worse over a period of a few hours or days, definitely suggest a dying hard drive. I couldn’t even move a file from one place to another. Normal activities were taking longer and longer. Then, this week, I saw pinwheels for an entire morning, and even had to force-shut down and restart my computer a few times. I checked to make sure my Time Machine backup was up to date, and then I completely erased my iMac hard drive, reinstalled Mountain Lion from scratch, and used Time Machine restore to bring my software and data back.Įverything seemed fine for about 2 weeks. Given the timing, I assumed the upgrade had caused some system issues. I ran Activity Monitor (it’s in Applications -> Utilities) and could see that lot of computing power was being used, even to perform simple tasks. Here’s how I diagnosed the issue, and got myself running again.Ībout 2 weeks ago I upgraded my iMac from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, and I immediately started seeing a lot of pinwheeling while in many applications.
The iMac is from late 2008, so it’s less than 5 years old, and this is the 2nd drive that’s died the drive it originally came with was replaced a few years ago already.
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