My work laptop started acting up two days ago. I haven’t installed anything new, the laptop hasn’t moved, nothing is different. Well, except for the way the laptop is operating.

Six reboots in six minutes. Can your Mac do that?

[Also posted at The Alligator Pit.]

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1. Dude, that sucks. I’ve been there with an old hunk of junk that now runs Ubuntu. The hard drive was the main problem, but I suspect there were some software issues too. I would use a Knoppix disk (anything after 4.0 doesn’t work for me). Boot up with it and an ext. HD plugged in, then add read/write permission and backup. Then format and reinstall. Maybe get a new hard drive too before this one goes “Tits Up”.

   Comment by Joe on May 29th, 2008 @ 18:33

   
   

2. Yeah, I need to try something else soon. The HD is only a couple months old, and it checks out with Spinrite. Next, I need to restrict what starts up at boot so I can see if something else is interfering. If not, then I will be going the external HD recovery route.

   Comment by Slobokan on May 29th, 2008 @ 18:55

   
   

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