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

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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote 

> Hi.

Lo.
 
> 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. 

> 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 ?

> 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. 

> 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. 

> and planning in advance. 

Not clear what you mean there. 

> 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... 

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13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-27 22:51 -0500
  Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 09:57 +1000
    Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-28 20:34 -0500
      Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-28 22:00 -0500
        Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 16:57 +1000
          Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 08:25 -0500
            Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 10:14 +1000
              Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 21:31 -0500
                Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 20:14 +1000
                Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-30 16:38 -0500
      Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 16:54 +1000
        Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 08:28 -0500
          Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 10:29 +1000
            Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-09-29 21:34 -0500
              Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 20:19 +1000
      Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-10-02 20:56 -0400

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