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This really is an amazing story! I have been having catastrophic problems with my MBP since Fusion 7 and noone could cure it. Sluggishness, constant spinning balls, constant crashes, i had completely given up on ever getting windows 7 to work in anything above Fusion 4.

8-10 hours with Fusion's tech support revealed nothing whatsoever, however many times they pretended to turn off hardware acceleration.

Then this coolscan problem.

Then I concluded over 4-5 hours on the phone with applecare that it was a hardware problem, probably motherboard related, and put in an insurance claim.

But the bloke at applecare did try to say that with this sort of conclusion, there is a one in 1000 chance of a Genius Bar diagnosis off 'something else'

Blow me down! The nice girl at thhe apple store almost immediately diagnosed a DU problem and did a COMMAND-R start to the recoveery partition. There, DU ran, finding all sorts of lost-cluster-like problems.

HEY PRESTO, suddenly the MBP runs like brand new, XP and 7 run perfectly, the scanner is immediately identified as an LS40 (or an IOUSB device, there is no difference), XP immediately sees its new USB connected device and installs drivers.


What is even more baffling is that throughout this process I have upgraded OSX numerous times and run DISK WARRIOR numerous times with out these cataclysmic file system problems either manifesting themselves or even being found!

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