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One possible way to eject troublesome CDs or DVDs
Authored by: RussellK on Aug 08, '06 07:46:22AM
Is "flipping the whole system upside down" while the computer is running a good idea?

You mention that you "unplugged" the system, but presumably this was just to untie it and make it easier to flip? I assume that if you pressed the "Eject" button this means your system was still actually powered up and running. I've read that moving a MacBook around...let alone flipping it upside down...might risk damaging the spinning hard drive etc.

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One possible way to eject troublesome CDs or DVDs
Authored by: abhibeckert on Aug 06, '07 03:00:32PM

In theory movement can damage hard drives, but people are always moving iPods around, and the failure rate is reasonably low. You'd have to be pretty unlucky to have a failed hard drive from moving yours once or twice if people are abusing iPods for years before their hard drives fail.

But that's mostly irrelevant, because newer mac notebooks will "lock down" the hard drive as soon as they detect movement. So you should be safe moving any intel MacBook/MacBook Pro while it's running.



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