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Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results)

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, alt.comp.periphs.hdd
Subject	Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results)
Date	2017-02-20 18:00 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<eh0p5qFqibeU8@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2017-02-20, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> On 2/20/2017 7:33 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2017-02-20, Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
>>> Someone asked me to run SMART test on the internal HDD. Here are the
>>> results with an old SMARTreporter app (still failed long tests in the
>>> same HDD spot):
>>> [snip]
>>
>> That drive is obviously on its way out. I'd go ahead and replace it.
>
> Thanks. I was able to download, compile, and run its newer version 
> (https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/6.5/smartmontools-6.5.tar.gz/download)'s 
> source under the external HDD's new Mac OS X v10.5.8 installation (also 
> had to install its Xcode from its DVD #2). I got the similiar results. I 
> guess the old HDD caused a data corruption to make the old OS boot up 
> fail that started a couple nights ago?

There's really no way of knowing whether the drive issues cause the
system not to be able to start up properly until you find out what's
actually preventing startup.

Personally I wouldn't bother trying to figure out more. I'd just replace
the drive with a new one, install a fresh OS on the new drive, hook up
the old drive to the computer during installation, and let the setup
assistant migrate the data from the old drive to the new system when
prompted.

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JR

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Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results) Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-20 09:51 -0800
  Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/Leopard (SMART test results) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-20 18:00 +0000

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