Macbook Hard Drive Partition Input Output Error
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A1181 / black or white case / 1.83 or 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo processor. hd macbook western digital 506 Questions input output error hard drive mac View all J Ernesto Rep: 1 Posted: 08/07/2011 Options Permalink History Subscribe Unsubscribe New hard drive input/output error My old MacBook hard drive died and so I installed a WD 250GB 5400RPM SATA HD myself hard drive input output error but when trying to erase it I get a input/output error and I cannot seem to partition it. When I try to reinstall my original Tiger OS X the 'select a destination' step is blank and there is nothing to select. I'm not worried about the old HD as I had mostly everything backed up - I just want to get this new HD up and running and get my MacBook fixed! I starting to go through cold turkey without it... please help! Answered! View the answer I have this problem too Subscribed to new answers Is this a good question? Yes No Voted Undo Score 0 Cancel Add a comment 0/1024 Cancel Post comment Are you sure you want to delete this zzzzzz? Cancel The All-New Pro Tech Toolkit The high performance electronics repair kit. On Sale Now 5 Answers Filter by: Most Helpful Newest Oldest Chosen Solution mayer @mayer Rep: 424.9k MacHale Enterprises 735 469 1.4k Posted: 08/07/2011 Options Permalink History Use the jumpers and set it down to 1.5 GB. Usually pins 5 & 6 Go here and look for SATA Hard Drive Jumper Settings on the first page: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/ot... UPDATE 4/8/12 Here are the settings. The two pins on the right should be jumped Was this answer helpful? Yes No Voted Undo Score 1 Cancel Comments: Forgive my ignorance but I don't follow.. 08/08/2011 by J Ernesto Thanks for the help, but I don't think that is the hard drive I have bought. Mine only has 4 jumper pins and no shunt or anything already on it. Is the problem something to do with the fact that the software isn't reading the hard drive as a 25
2011 by Mr T For once I can give something BACK to the Internet community. For many years if I've had a tech problem that I've been unable to solve I've turned to the ‘net (generally the mighty Google) to find a solution. Recently my MacBook hard disk drive (HDD if ya wanna speak tech) decided to depart this mortal coil - I'm convinced hard drives know the perfect time to die and cause maximum inconvenience. Yes my backup was weeks ago and yes the night before I'd spent 4 hours designing flyers, tickets and promo info for an upcoming 80's night (where I'll be DJing). So on https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/60190/New+hard+drive+input-output+error the very day that I'm scheduled to present the produced materials to the planning team the hard drive decides to crash - with the click of a drive head my MacBook switched from a graphic editing, media playing, soft synth hosting powerhouse to a doorstop… So next stop is to get a new hard drive. I ordered one in (from the friendly and efficient IT & comms providers, HJS Essentia) and then waited. Eventually http://mr.tilyard.info/macbook-hard-drive-upgrade-easy/ after what seemed like an age (ok two days) the new drive is in my hands. Using the very useful instructions from Apple on how to install a new hard disk drive in a MacBook I managed to swap the drives over. THAT, I thought was the hard bit dealt with - how wrong could I be?! I started the MacBook with the Mac OS X Install Disk 1 (version 10.4.9 to be precise) which was the disk that came with my Mac when I purchased it. My new drive was a WD Scorpio Blue 250Gb (how Western Digital know what star sign and favourite colour a hard drive has I've no idea). Anyway, off it goes and then cheerfully informs me I have a 1.8Tb hard drive (cool! I thought - perhaps Western Digital badged it wrong!) <- that was a joke BTW. No, something was wrong and it wouldn't partition it either, throwing back an input/output error when trying to create a partition. So I did the usual Google searches "wd scorpio 250gb seen as 1.8tb in macbook", "250gb hard disk shown as 1.8tb in macbook" and all I got was rather unhelpful and misleading pages especially from "Experts" Exchange (tip don't register just look at it through Google's cache). Most people on there were stating
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