In case anyone's interested, this all stopped once I re-installed 4000.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Fred Weiner <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to the responders. I'll have a look at the options, though I have > been using ONYX, which checks S.M.A.R.T. and has not reported problems--so > far. > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Tim Lawson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Here's one you could look at <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/> - >> 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. >> >> >> > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
