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:
> > > 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]> > -- 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]>

