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Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not?

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> > Hi.

> Lo.

Ha.


> > I had to help a client whose's 13.3" MacBook Pro wouldn't boot up after
> > travelling to another country. We tried to do stuff remotely, but stuff
> > failed like Apple Hardware Test, Safe Mode, etc. This evening, he
> > returned and I checked it out its Disk Utility v13 wouldn't fully verify
> > and repair. So I had to do a Time Machine restore from his external USB2
> > HDD which took almost three hours to complete (over 161 GB of data).
> > Now, Disk Utility's verifications passed and Mac OS X boots up in both
> > recovery and after logging into restored Mac OS X on HDD.

> > I did more HDD testings with SMARTreporter (demo). 
> > They showed green color, passed, etc. However, 
> > I noticed its logs show possible bad signs:
> > http://pastie.org/pastes/10447460/text?key=n5pgkmll2uz2nljbwrznyg ...

> Absolutely certainly bad signs. Its got an absolute shitload of 
> pending reallocatable sectors, 456, and its clearly been dropped. 

What type of drop? A big drop or a small drop? I will have to ask if he 
dropped it hard.


> > So, I ran a short test and it passed. Long test twice, it failed at 90%.
> > This sounds scary to me. What do you guys think?

> She's dead Jim, you still into necrophilia ?

You love saying that. :P


> > For now, I told him to use his MBP at his own risk and not to do any
> > more backups to Time Machine drive just in case but do back up to
> > external USB flash drives or so for now.

> > If the drive is dying, 

> No if about it. 

OK.


> > what is a good replacement in case Apple won't replace 
> > it due to recent expired AppleCare on 9/17/2015 

> But it may have been covered when it was dropped. 

We'll see... He doesn't want Apple to have his old HDD since they don't 
return it to the owner. :(


> > and planning in advance. 

> Not clear what you mean there. 

Apple might not replace it for free and he has to get his own 
replacement.


> > He currently used almost 200 GB of disk space (Time Machine
> > didn't keep his VMs, big videos, etc. but those were copied
> > (back/cop)ied separately).

> > Thank you in advance. :)

> Still smirking. You were warned... 

As usual. ;)
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