Hi,
I've had drives die on me before, usually with the famous 'click, click, click'. But today my internal Samsung F1 750GB drive that i bought in 2008 and use as a Time Machine back up drive was 'ejected' during a backup. I thought the drive was dead until i tried to restart and got a grey screen that wouldn't go away (not a kernel panic). I turned the machine off and back on again, OSX booted, and there it was, as if nothing had happened. I ran disk utility verification and it said it was fine. I even just did a TM backup on it.
But, would you say it's safe the assume it's about to lose the will to live?
Cheers
I've had drives die on me before, usually with the famous 'click, click, click'. But today my internal Samsung F1 750GB drive that i bought in 2008 and use as a Time Machine back up drive was 'ejected' during a backup. I thought the drive was dead until i tried to restart and got a grey screen that wouldn't go away (not a kernel panic). I turned the machine off and back on again, OSX booted, and there it was, as if nothing had happened. I ran disk utility verification and it said it was fine. I even just did a TM backup on it.
But, would you say it's safe the assume it's about to lose the will to live?
Cheers