Yup. Sounds like that drive is toast.
CB
On 4/29/13 5:34 PM, Rob Bender wrote:
This was very helpful. I was able to erase the drive and then performed the
command you gave for Terminal. I got a Smart status: failing message. I guess
it is off to Apple to get a new drive installed.
On 2013
This was very helpful. I was able to erase the drive and then performed the
command you gave for Terminal. I got a Smart status: failing message. I guess
it is off to Apple to get a new drive installed.
On 2013-04-29, at 11:42 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> If you were able to format the drive w
If you were able to format the drive with disk utility then it seems
like your hard drive is actually ok. You can also check the drive
hardware pre-failure status from the terminal by doing
diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART
which should report
SMART Status: Verified
That means, as far as the
Thanks for the very helpful information. I wanted to try a few things before
buying a $99 program to fix the disk. I restored my drive from my Superdooper
backup and it doesn't work better when I boot up from the internal hard drive.
I used disk utility to erase the drive before the restore.
Hi Jonathan and Rob,
Alsoft's Disk Warrior can be run from a bootable cloned backup. It's just that
running it from the DVD is not accessible because the system can't load
VoiceOver from the DVD. However, if you've installed a version on your hard
drive (either from the DVD or, more commonly,
This can sometimes occur with a bad disk partition that is being read from. If
this is the case, disk utility will probably not catch it,but disk warrior
(which I don't believe is accessible) will. Installing the OS onto an erased
hard disk partition did wonders for my system performance. But if
Hello. When I boot from My Mac Book HD, it takes almost 10 minutes to get to
the log in screen and the log in is very slow after entering my password. I
have a Superdooper backup which I used to restart the system, and everything
works as it should. I repaired the disc and permissions on th
