You mentioned a 50GB partition for OSX betas. So were you running beta
OSes on this box? If so, it's at least plausible that the beta OSX had
some kind of bug which mangled data structures on the drive and, since
it had access to your non-beta partition, it could have mangled your
regular OSX boot drive as well. In other words, this could still have
been a software issue.
CB
On 6/5/14, 9:17 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Hi all,
So, here's the status of my Mac Mini's hard drive.
* Two repairs from the Recovery HD resulted in an error telling me to format ad
re-install.
* I did just that at the end of March, and given that two repairs couldn't fix
whatever errors have accumulated after three months, it seems like the drive
itself is having problems.
* The SMART status of the drive is "verified", not "failing", which seems odd
given the previous points.
* The drive is partitioned into two: 450gb for OS X, and 50gb for OS X betas. I
don't yet know if the beta partition works, but both share a drive so I'm not
optimistic.
Any ideas? I looked at replacing the drive, but the iFixIt instructions are
scary and require special tools. The Mini is not under Apple Care protection,
and my nearest Genius bar is almost three hours away. Am I just doomed, or is
there a check/repair/miracle program I could run? Any suggestions are
appreciated.
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