On 30/11/2010, at 5:34 PM, thefrogs wrote:
> > I did make a post indicating that one of my hard drives was dropping off the > desk top with the familiar put away warning box. I thought it was the drive > that was packing up. So I drought a new one. A few days ago the new one had > warning signs from Drive Genius 3 that it needed urgent repair. First time it > came up with 48 bad blocks in the first 3%. I went through with DiskWarrior > then Techtool and now it appears stable. Not the end of the story Now my > other drive at schgool is dropping off the desk top and I cannot read one of > my Corsair thumb drives. > I think there must be something incorrect with the latest 10.6.5. > Real question How can I test this other than reinstalling the upgrade. > > 2008 iMac 4gb Ram Three 1Tb hard drives > tom samson Hello Tom, Have you checked the iMac's Internal Drive by starting up from a Snow Leopard Install DVD & using Disk Utility on the Install Disc 'Repair Disk? Or have you started from used Disk Warrior Disc and checked the internal drive? Also how are the External Drives & Flash Drive Formatted? I don't think this is related to OS X 10.6.5 upgrade as you were experiencing problems before upgrading. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 8GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
