smart status - failing

Go to file - copy

Open text edit and go to file - paste

Make sure u hold the power forward button - next to option

 

In what application? And the COPY command (CMD+C) is normally located under EDIT.

The same as above, but I guess you got confused. Happens to me too.

But this is the reason I reply, what is the POWER FORWARD button? On the left of the OPTION key is CONTROL and on the right of the OPTION key is COMMAND.

 

What???

 

How old is the HDD and has been used much? Is the the data on it backed up, if you need it?

 

Is it a MacBook Pro or Mac Pro you have?

Anyway, do you have a backup?

 

"Verify Disk" or "Repair Disk" doesn't check S.M.A.R.T. status. There is no conflict.

Hard drives fail early quite often. Are you still under warranty?

 

In terminal
diskutil info disk0 | grep SMART

The " | " between disk0 and grep is the pipe symbol.

If it says Verified all is well according to OSX

If not get it to Apple and get the drive replaced.

 

What prompted you to check the SMART status? Are you having other problems with the drive?

 

Back it up and get the drive replaced. SMART failures are almost *always* an indication that your drive is dying.

 

go to terminal and try

fsck -fy

 

Boot into the machine in single user mode
CMD-S on grey screen, do the FSCK -FY again see if it allows the disk to be self repaired, those are usually IO issues on the drive. What Os are you running? if you are on Lion or ML after doing that if that error comes up again try booting up onto the recovery partition by using CMD-R on the grey screen and running disk utility from there.

Let me know how it goes..