Did Bootcamp kill my HDD?

[mikehowett]

I got my iMac back from my local Apple store yesterday after the HDD died and needed to be replaced. As i was getting ready to leave the genius asked me if i had used Bootcamp on the machine. I told him yes and he said that the HDD failure was probably caused by using Bootcamp.

Now my question is; is what he said possible? Can software cause a HDD to fail and has anyone else experienced the same thing?

 

[Passante]

Some people say installing windoze XP on any computer trashes it

 

[shadowmoses]

A piece of software can't cause a Hard Drive to physically fail, it can corrupt the data on the hard drive though and make it unusable.....

The Hard Drive probably failed by chance and bad luck....

ShadoW

 

[Sun Baked]

Under OpenFirware, you can trash/corrupt a HD in software so bad it looks dead and instantly crashes or Flashy ? with no way around.

But an external case or PowerMac can help out.

Don't know it EFI will do the same thing -- if it does formatting the drive solves all ills and trashes the data.

Since Apple doesn't need to take the time to recover data, a HD swap is an option.

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But SW killing a HD, usually won't happen -- the drive would have died later in any case.

Don't feel bad, it was a bad part.

Better now than later when you got a years work on the drive and no backups.

 

[lexus]

Maybe a virus??

 

[mikehowett]

Thanks for your replies guys. I don't think it was because of Bootcamp, as the failure sounded mecanical to me, but i'm still a little reluctant to install it again.

 

[Sun Baked]

Maybe a virus??

Yes, he did install a virus and a major bug -- but there was likely some decent coding riding along with the Windows.XP.virus file.

Thanks for your replies guys. I don't think it was because of Bootcamp, as the failure sounded mecanical to me, but i'm still a little reluctant to install it again.

Install it, it was likely a mechanical failure.

 

[MRU]

Yes, he did install a virus and a major bug -- but there was likely some decent coding riding along with the Windows.XP.virus file.

Install it, it was likely a mechanical failure.

If it's not anything major you need to do on your pc other than general apps, you could give parallels a try. If it fecks up, you can just delete the virtual image.

 

[mikehowett]

If it's not anything major you need to do on your pc other than general apps, you could give parallels a try. If it fecks up, you can just delete the virtual image.

Yeh I only use it for a few small bits, might give that a try