HD crashed!

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DVX100Shooter

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Just wondering if anyone has ran into this problem before! I was editing over the weekend and went to render out 2 video clips. I was just putting a letterbox on them. It got to 64% and stopped. The whole G5 Powermac just got sluggish all of the sudden. After talking to the tech people and an Apple Specialist at a nearby store who gave me some code to punch in, the end result was a message on the screen that said my MAC HD could not be repaired! All this from rendering 2 video clips???? I have had my system since 2003 with no issues. Anyway I took my G5 to the shop yesterday and hope to have it back sometime this week. Weird huh?!
 
Hard drives die, not "if" but "when". If it's been running since 2003, it's crashed, I bet. Always have full system back ups! Trust me, I've learned the hard way!

Drives crash, not from what you are currently doing, but from wear. There's rarely any warnings before hand these days either(back when I was an IT Engineer, drives developed symptoms first, not anymore). It's time has come.

Please let us know the outcome from your repair shop!
 
I totally feel for you Shooter, and trust me there is nothing worse than having to explain to three pairs of newlyweds that their wedding videos will be delayed...forever.

Backing up should be the first thing you do after turning on your computer, honestly I am sure that most read these horror stories and have the utmost confidence in their rigs, I did too, and here I am.

Just put what you value onto disk or tape for safety, end of story. It is no different than putting on your seatbelt before you drive, because chances are if this happens to a large enough client you are going to go through a window without one.
 
The weird thing is that FCP the application is on my system drive. The drive I capture to and store my "work in progress" goes onto my 2nd internal drive. My finished projects end up on my external drive. So I am still baffled as to how the system drive had issues. Hopefully I will hear from the repair shop soon!
 
It doesn't matter what's on what drive. None of your project has anything to do with a drive failing. It just happens. All drives fail at some point in time. Some sooner than others. It's just the nature of the technology.
 
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