Macbook (13″): Is excessive power consumption and resultant hot battery symptomatic of a faulty hard drive?

October 13, 2009

I know from diagnostic software that my macbook’s hard drive has a lot of bad sectors.

It also is very slow to access any data, to the point of being effectively unusable, fails to run many applications, and uses up so much power that the battery barely gains any excess stored power, because all of the power is going to the computer. As a result of this, the battery and charger get very hot.

Is this likely to be the result of the hard drive problems, making the solution hard drive replacement, or is there likely to be another problem – and if so, what?

Thanks in advance! x

What software program is the good for recovering bad sectors & backing up files of bad hard drive?

September 3, 2009

I am trouble finding a program that can recover bad sectors on my drive, so I can backup my files/data. I have faithfully backup my drives often, but this just suddenly happened without warning . I have a Second Maxtor Hard Drive for backing up data and since there owned by Seagate. I used there diagnostic program to check the drive out which fix’s any errors afterwords. But freeze’s quarter of the way through and can’t get it to finish. I have tried UBootCD and many free programs, but no luck. I have tried to backing up the drive with UBootCD tools, Windows XP Backup program and some others that are free to download. It backup the some the files on the drive that are not bad part of the drive ( bad sectors) , but not all of my files. So need help badly to find a good program can repair the bad sectors and then backup my files/data without losing them. Or finding a program that can backup my files/data even if there is bad sectors. Which I don’t know if you can? Please help me out! I am lost and may lose my DATA.