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smart status - failing
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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.
How old is the HDD and has been used much? Is the the data on it backed up, if you need it?
"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?
Hard drives fail early quite often. Are you still under warranty?
MBP 15" Late 2011
Is it failing if it didnt show in disk utility? but did show this other smart utility?
Would anyone be able to tell me what checks to do to be sure whats wrong.
Its under warranty for another 3months..
Whats on the disk i could move onto another and wipe anyway but I really would prefer have working HD.
Any help is great.
J.
What prompted you to check the SMART status? Are you having other problems with the drive?
SMART Status: Verified
Wonder why 3rd party software says not so then.
I was looking for some software check an external drive, so I ended up trying this on my main drive. Didnt see any problems, just was somewhat alarmed when it said my mac drive was failing.
MacBook-Pro:~ james$ fsck -fy
** /dev/rdisk0s2 (NO WRITE)
Can't open /dev/rdisk0s2: Permission denied
/dev/rdisk0s2 (hfs) EXITED WITH SIGNAL 8
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..
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..