Interesting, many thanks. I will try the read test as you suggest.
My current HDD was cloned from the previous similar model which exhibited
similar systems before refusing to boot. Luckily the problems on the old
HDD were intermittent. I managed to get both new and old HDD online via
If you can obtain the program GRC Spinright run that on your Drive that will
give you a idea of wether or not it's on it's way out or faulty :)
From: ichaud...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:25:45 +0100
To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Is my HDD on the way out?
On 24 March 2012 20:53, Imran Chaudhry ichaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Is my HDD on the way out? I recently observed errors such as those in
screenshot here, it seems to happen intermittently:
http://db.tt/QEQa7Pxj
As it is a relatively new HDD, I replaced the SATA cable just to be sure and
used dd if=old hdd of=new hdd
That's generally how I do things. Then use fdisk to sort out any
partitioning issues (I'm generally transferring data to a bigger drive...)
Would that somehow transfer badblock info?
No. You're transferring the view of your data as it is presented by the
drive
On 26/03/12 13:41, Vic wrote:
used dd if=old hdd of=new hdd
That's generally how I do things. Then use fdisk to sort out any
partitioning issues (I'm generally transferring data to a bigger drive...)
Would that somehow transfer badblock info?
No. You're transferring the view of your
Ally Briggs, bearing in mind that the GRC Spinrite software requires
Windows and the OP seems to be using Linux.
The software is also shareware which may present a problem.
Regards,
Dominic Rodriguez
On Mar 26, 2012 10:42 AM, Ally Biggs bluechr...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
If you can obtain the
Sometime ago I mentioned I had been offered a Mac Mini by one of my
wife's cousins who was upgrading her system. I finally got it weekend
before last and found it was the 2006 model running Tiger. It has the
single core processor so unable to run any more recent software and
apparently not
it was the 2006 model running Tiger. It has the
single core processor so unable to run any more recent software and
apparently not upgrade-able.
It is upgradeable.
Mine is of a similar vintage. It is currently running Leopard. I've not
got round to putting Snow Leopard on it yet.
Memory is
* Correction the installation has failed with
Error: failed to install openssl
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: (listed)
so it looks like it needs more work is needed.
I eventually found a 'ticket' for this error which suggested a
modification to the Portfile and
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:31:14 +0100 (BST)
Vic l...@beer.org.uk wrote:
it was the 2006 model running Tiger. It has the
single core processor so unable to run any more recent software and
apparently not upgrade-able.
It is upgradeable.
Mine is of a similar vintage. It is currently
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