On Feb 15, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Fred Weiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard drive failure: scary idea. How would one "look into" a hard drive > failure possibility (with apologies for a non-QS question)?
I’m hardly an expert there. Hopefully someone else will chime in. One thing you can do is look at the S.M.A.R.T. Status in Disk Utility, though I’ve heard that isn’t all that reliable. Another thing I’d do is reboot to the recovery partition (if you’re on 10.7+) or from an installation DVD, run Disk Utility from there, and run “Verify Disk” on your system drive. Doing it that way, you’ll have the opportunity to “Repair Disk” if any problems are found. That only checks for problems with files, not hardware, but if there are a lot of them, it could indicate a hardware problem. There are probably third party tools to help with this, too. -- Rob McBroom <http://www.skurfer.com/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
