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Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008?

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In article <aOadnUjki59kJHnLnZ2dnUU7-TOdnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant
<ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> 
> ... a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008

2008?!? "Very old"?!?

Young whipper-snappers these days, don't know they're well off. Some of
us are still using Macs from pre-2000 ... and we have to walk 50 miles
through the snow in bare feet just to get to our computer desks!  ;-)




> Hi.
> 
> I noticed a client's 15" MacBook Pro responding slowly, locked up with 
> Firefox and couldn't kill it, and shut down. Even booting up after doing 
> a force shut down with the power button was slow. I decided to check the 
> internal HDD with SMARTReporter v2.7.3 (green and pass results, but 
> didn't trust them) with its old smartctl version since I couldn't find a 
> precompiled build that would work in an updated Mac OS X v10.5.8 
> (Leopard) (tried http://builds.smartmontools.org/'s oldest and newest 
> daily builds: "Operation could not be completed. 
> (com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.) -- Couldn't open 
> 'smartmontools-6.5...pkg" (is there a compiled build that exist?). Is 
> short test passed, but its long test failed as shown below:
<snip>

Like most things labelled as "smart", the "SMART" technology inside
*some* disk drives is pretty useless and dumb. If it's a "very old"
drive, does it even have SMART technology in it??

First step is always simply to run the disk through Disk Utility and
see what that comes up with. Disk Utility may not be the best software
around, but it's certainly easier to "quickly" run a scan since it's
included with the OS on every Mac.

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A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2016-03-12 16:53 -0800
  Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-03-13 14:29 +1300
    Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-13 14:28 -0500
      Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-03-14 09:01 +1300
        Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-14 10:24 +1300
          Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-13 16:35 -0500
            Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-14 11:51 +1300
              Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-15 07:28 -0500
          Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2016-03-14 14:20 +1300
            Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-14 17:14 +1300
        Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-13 16:34 -0500
  Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-13 15:40 +1100
    Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-13 14:31 -0500
      Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-03-14 07:13 +1100
        Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-03-13 16:37 -0500
          Re: A dying HDD in a very old 15" MacBook Pro from 2008? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-03-14 11:51 +1300
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