The dropped drive is my back up drive. It lives in a spare laptop case and is brought out whenever I turn the MacBook on at home.
But that's what I feared. Maybe time for a new one and use this as a backup of the backup. Thanks Sent from my phone, which may be an iPhone. On 23 Sep 2010, at 22:26, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Russell Brown wrote: >> I have even started the process of restoring from it (up to the point of >> committing). >> >> Is it worth using Disk utility to verify it, or should I start saving for a >> replacement just in case? >> > hang on a minute. There's the dropped external disk -- where does restoring > from it come into it? > > I would say beware. Had a similar thing, disk worked for three days, suddenly > died. You just can't tell. Use it for non-vital stuff from now on? or spare > back-up? > > But frankly you can't really tell. You may have shortened its life or done > nothing. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
