Thanks Ronni, Checked it with Apple Care first thing this morning and they have arranged for a Technician to come out to my place and replace the HD. How good is that!!!
Apple Care and TimeMachine are great stress relievers. Regards, Adrian [email protected] On 22/01/2012, at 9:17 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Adrian, > > I only have my 3G network on my iPhone as our area got hit with a lot of > lighting strikes & our ADSL Networks went down @ 4AM Friday. > > if your S.M.A.R.T. status says your drive is failing, believe it. Back-up > immediately. > Run the SMART Check in the Tests category to get more detailed information > about which SMART parameter(s) failed. This may help you determine the > seriousness of the issue. > > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from my iPhone 4S-teve > > On 22/01/2012, at 1:33 PM, Ray Forma <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Adrian, >> >> Checking the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk with Disk Utility. >> (Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility.app) >> >> Disk drives you use with your computer can include S.M.A.R.T. hardware that >> tests and monitors the drive continuously for potential problems and >> failures. You can check the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disks in Disk >> Utility. >> >> S.M.A.R.T stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. >> >> If the S.M.A.R.T. status for a disk shows "Verified," nothing is wrong with >> it. If you see "About to Fail" in red letters, you should back up the disk >> and replace it as soon as possible. >> >> In Disk Utility, select a hard disk in the list of disks and volume. Look at >> the bottom of the window for the S.M.A.R.T. Status. >> >> If you want continual indication of your HD status then I recommend that you >> download and install Smartreporter <http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/> >> and check the icon it puts in your menubar. If that icon changes from green >> to red it's high time to do a full backup before replacing the HD. >> >> On 22/01/2012, at 12:59 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: >> >>> Good afternoon all, >>> >>> I am getting a regular TechTools Pro 6. warning on my iMac. >>> >>> TechTool Protection Alert! ST31000528ASQ - 6VP3MSM0 on "/dev/disk0" is >>> exceeding SMART warning levels. The SMART Check setting is configured in >>> the TechTool Protection Mac OS X System Preferences pane. >>> >>> Model Name: iMac 27" >>> Processor Name: Intel Core i7 >>> Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz >>> Number of Processors: 1 >>> Total Number of Cores: 4 >>> Memory: 8 GB >>> >>> OS X 10.7.2 >>> >>> I dont like the look of this at all as it seems to suggest that the HD is >>> about to die. Can anyone confirm that this may be that case or is there >>> something else going on. The machine seems to be functioning OK at the >>> moment. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> >>> Adrian >>> >>> [email protected] >> >> Regards, >> >> Ray Forma >> 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia >> Tel +61 (0) 8 9335 6568 >> Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
