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| From | "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.periphs.hdd, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not? |
| Date | 2015-09-29 16:54 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <d6uqtgF43b1U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote >>> Hi. >> Lo. > Ha. La. >>> 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? The SMART report doesn’t say, its just a count. > 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 I got that from your NSA report. >>> 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. :( OK, pretty cheap to just buy a new one for the privacy. >>> 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. Since he doesn’t want Apple to keep the drive, best to just by a new one. They don’t cost much. >>> 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. ;) Just like with the necrophilia.
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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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