and funnily enough, just as I was posting that, MacUpdate told me about this! Worth clicking on the 'Visit developer's site' link at the top to learn more...
On 15 Feb 2013, at 18:42, Tim Lawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's one you could look at - I'm not recommending it - just that I know of > it. > > > On 15 Feb 2013, at 18:24, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > -- 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.
