Time for Some Maintenance [Macintosh SpinRite]

My home Mac has been acting up lately. Very slow to boot, occasional spinning beachball while hard disk activity is taking place... all signs of HDD weariness.

Today I finally bit the bullet and screwed up enough courage to delve into the disassembly of my iMac4,1 so that I could get access to its hard drive and run the ever-venerable SpinRite upon it.

It is a pain in the behind to get access to that hard disk. I needed Torx screwdrivers, in addition to prying the lid of the front face (taped down to boot) and making a big mess on my floor.

It was enough to get access to the SATA interface with my nifty SATA-to-USB adapter. My PC laptop can then safely SpinRite the Mac disk nearly in-place.

Of course, I'd much rather be able to run SpinRite natively. Perhaps that will come in SR7... :)