Yes I have Checked the Mac's internal drive the others are GUID. I still cannot 
find a way to determine why they error. I have been looking through the logs 
and watchingActivity Monitor. Just strange behaviour that interrupts Time 
machine and anything else I am doing.
tom
On 30/11/2010, at 6:09 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

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> On 30/11/2010, at 5:34 PM, thefrogs wrote:
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>> 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)
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