Hi, I agree with Chris that it could very likely be a software thing. So, since you have a Time Machine backup that is fairly up-to-date and you say that you have your important files backed up, I’d go for the reformat and reinstall option. If you don’t have an external HD or the cables that I mentioned earlier, there is a neat little utility within the Mavericks Installer that allows you to build a bootable Mavericks installer on a flash drive that is at least 8 GB in size. If you wish to go that way, I can share instructions with you.
Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:00 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > 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. >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
