This was very helpful. I was able to erase the drive and then performed the command you gave for Terminal. I got a Smart status: failing message. I guess it is off to Apple to get a new drive installed.
On 2013-04-29, at 11:42 AM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > If you were able to format the drive with disk utility then it seems like > your hard drive is actually ok. You can also check the drive hardware > pre-failure status from the terminal by doing > > diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART > > which should report > > SMART Status: Verified > > That means, as far as the drive knows, everything is working fine. > > You can also install SmartReporter which will notify you if this changes: > > http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter_lite/index.html > > CB > > On 4/27/13 8:23 PM, Rob Bender wrote: >> Thanks for the very helpful information. I wanted to try a few things >> before buying a $99 program to fix the disk. I restored my drive from my >> Superdooper backup and it doesn't work better when I boot up from the >> internal hard drive. >> I used disk utility to erase the drive before the restore. Does this mean >> that there is something physically wrong with the drive, or does disk >> utility not totally erase the drive? >> Perhaps this means a visit to the Apple Store. >> >> Thanks for your help in advance. >> On 2013-04-26, at 3:35 AM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jonathan and Rob, >>> >>> Alsoft's Disk Warrior can be run from a bootable cloned backup. It's just >>> that running it from the DVD is not accessible because the system can't >>> load VoiceOver from the DVD. However, if you've installed a version on your >>> hard drive (either from the DVD or, more commonly, from the download) and >>> have made a bootable clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! onto >>> another drive, you should be able to run this application without problems. >>> Since you won't be able to run these diagnoses on your MacBook hard drive, >>> you attach a cloned hard drive, hold down the option key when your press >>> the power on, and then after giving your system 20 or 30 seconds to start >>> the boot, press either left or right arrow and then return. You want to >>> have a version of Disk Warrior on your bootable clone, too, and then run >>> the program from there. >>> >>> Apple Genius bars used to keep Disk Warrior on a separate boot drive to run >>> on suspect systems. I think that most diagnostic programs like Drive >>> Genius and Disk Warrior that are run from the DVD won't be accessible, but >>> if they're installed on your hard drive and are available on a bootable >>> clone, they can be run with VoiceOver. (Actually, I'm not sure how much of >>> Drive Genius is accessible, but I was told that at least some of this >>> program was. I know that Disk Warrior has been usable with VoiceOver, but >>> I haven't had to do this in a few years.) >>> >>> HTH. Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> >>> On 25 Apr 2013, at 16:44, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >>> >>>> This can sometimes occur with a bad disk partition that is being read >>>> from. If this is the case, disk utility will probably not catch it,but >>>> disk warrior (which I don't believe is accessible) will. Installing the OS >>>> onto an erased hard disk partition did wonders for my system performance. >>>> But if you can grab one of the more advanced disk utilities like the above >>>> mentioned Warrior and have somebody sighted with you, you might be able to >>>> resolve without re-installin >>>> Best wishes, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Rob Bender wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello. When I boot from My Mac Book HD, it takes almost 10 minutes to >>>>> get to the log in screen and the log in is very slow after entering my >>>>> password. I have a Superdooper backup which I used to restart the >>>>> system, and everything works as it should. I repaired the disc and >>>>> permissions on the Macbook HD and it still takes the same time to >>>>> restart. I haven't found anything strange in the login items either. >>>>> I also have several time machine backups. >>>>> >>>>> I haven't restored from a time machine backup yet, because I am afraid >>>>> that I will still have the same problems afterwards. I have newer files >>>>> on the MacBook HD that I want to back up before restoring from the >>>>> Superdooper backup which appears to work well and do not want to corrupt >>>>> the backup. >>>>> There is probably something I am missing, but want to check before taking >>>>> all the time to try various options. >>>>> Any ideas? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance for your help. >>>>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> > > -- > ¯\_(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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?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 "MacVisionaries" group. 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