Hi, thanks for all this. Smart status does in deed say varified. Do you remember off hand how much the apple store might charge me for disc warrier? I'm looking it up on the apple store online now, but if it's not expensive, say, under the $100 mark, I might just buy it from the apple store and let the geneus handle it.
Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: [email protected] On 30-Jul-09, at 5:33 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > One quick question: when you run Disk Utility what reading do you get > when you select the hard drive above "Macintosh HD" on the sidebar? > That is, when you VO-Up arrow to something that says (for example, > 232.9 GB Fujitsu etc.) Use item chooser menu to go to "selected disk > image" and then VO-Right arrow and interact with the part that begins > "Disk Description". There should be an announcement of "S.M.A.R.T. > Status:" Does it say "verified" after that announcement? > > You can sometimes recover from this with Alsoft's "Disk Warrior" but > there are accessibility issues running from the DVD, I think. If it's > on a cloned disk you can run it on your home disk drive through the > clone. If you have a local Apple Store nearby, they can probably run > this as a diagnostic on your hard drive. They might be willing to go > ahead and run it on your hard drive if you bought a copy of the > software from the store (though it's slightly cheaper from the web > download.) And you should probably have a new hard drive to copy to > before things get seriously worse and unrecoverable. Disk Warrior does > work to recover in instances such as you describe, although given the > circumstances I would ask at my local Apple Store and try to have them > run this. I'm sure that every Genius bar has a copy of this. They > can run the diagnosis for you even if they won't run the recovery. > You should know that there is a possibility of introducing problems in > doing the recover mode, but in most instances it just works, and the > problems are minimal. In that case, if your disk has really gone > south the amount of work you'd have to do to get the problem areas > fully recovered without these glitches is quite major, and probably > beyond your scope. Disk Warrior does work very well, although I > haven't had to use it for quite a while -- since first upgrading to > Leopard. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > erik burggraaf wrote: > >> >> Hi friends. I think something is rong with my apple hardware. >> >> 3 or four weeks ago I started having checksums fail when I coppied >> things across the network from my old turion notebook to the macbook >> here. >> >> I thought it might be the disc on the other machine failing. It is 4 >> or 5 years old now after all. But I've also noticed I can't run >> digital voices like alex or ryan any more. The system doesn't stand >> for it. Even when I'm using fred or bruce vo restarts often, >> programs >> hang, and some times the whole system seems to go dead for a minute, >> the dvd drive resets, and then the system comes back to life as if >> nothing had happened. >> >> Yesterday I loaded up my windows vm here and tried to mac catalog my >> music folder and the wimdows system told me some fo the files >> couldn't >> be read. I repaired the permissions on my drive, but I checked the >> log thuroughly and nothing in my home folder had corupt permissions. >> >> I did a verify disc on the hard drive and everything came back OK, >> even though I sorely suspect that not to be the case. So, I loaded >> up >> off the cd and tried the varify, and it still says everything is OK. >> I suspect though that the hitacci hard drive in my macbook pro is >> failing. Is there any recorse for me somewhere in between disc >> utility from the install cd and dropping my macbook off at the apple >> store for a couple of days? A hitacci diagnostic that runs on mac >> OS10 for example, or another more thurough apple friendly third party >> diagnostic? >> >> Thanks, >> >> erik burggraaf >> A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. >> Phone: 888-255-5194 >> Email: [email protected] >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
