Aw, cr@p! Hard drive failure!

[vicrock]

My office iMac (intel core duo) has had a hard drive failure - I never noticed, since I have a full clone backup (superduper) that happens automatically every night.

Hard drive does not show up at all - I will bring in my Snow Leopard disk from home tomorrow and see what I can see what booting from it and into disk utility shows.

I have disk warrior, and can try that as well (disk also at home).

Assuming all this fails, how hard is it to crack one of these open and install a new drive? I am moderately handy with this sort of thing.

[Ken Sp.]

Not too bad if you are handy.
I clip the front bezel up rather than remove the wires for the Camera and Microphone.

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Browse/iMac

Make note that one of the screws on the bottom is longer than the other 3

[Black]

My office iMac (intel core duo) has had a hard drive failure - I never noticed, since I have a full clone backup (superduper) that happens automatically every night.

I can't make head or tail out of this statement.

[decay]

I get to do one this week, too.

bought a WD Caviar Blue 500 GB for $56 shipped from the 'egg.

[Black]

I've been into my 2006 iMac three times. The first time will be the hardest as there's tons of adhesive foil to peel back and you're going to hate doing it.

[vicrock]

Black wrote:
My office iMac (intel core duo) has had a hard drive failure - I never noticed, since I have a full clone backup (superduper) that happens automatically every night.

I can't make head or tail out of this statement.

Since I have a cloned backup attached, when the iMac started up and didn't find the internal, it booted from the clone. I did not notice the absence of the internal - it probably happened several days ago.

[Black]

OK, got it.
Good luck . . . the latches have always been the hardest part for me.