Hi As Robert said if possible remove as much data as you can! Don't try to move a lot of files in one go, this may cause more problems!
SMART is an industry specification fitted to 99% of hard drives for probably 4/5 years. It basically keeps track of the hard-drive, reading errors, writing errors and temperature etc. It is 'meant' to tell you when a hard-drive will supposedly fail as a warning. I've had a few occasions where it has told me the drive is about to die and then lived till I stopped using it.(I've never had a hard-drive fail yet.. *Dave hits wood against head..) Once you get one error message get the most crucial data backed up ASAP and trundle along.. Once you have data off maybe consider formatting the drive and then slowly using it for the odd task were a hard-drive failure wouldn't be too bad. If you have two hard drives try and think about the hard-drives. In this PC (New job = New 24" iMac) I have three hardrives, two are in a RAID Striping for supposedly extra power/speed and the next a large 250GB drive for data. I send all downloads to the C: drive and then this try's to remove some stress and running off the main crucial data drive. I seem to have rambled and gone around in circles 0000 there but hopefully someone can make head and or tail of it, with a circle in the middle.. Thanks, David Moyle --------------------------------------- Manjimup, Western Australia E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Burton Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:15 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: hard disk crash Hi all Im not happy. My internal backup 200gb hard disk on my G5 has had it I think. A message appears within disk utility saying for me to back up now as the SMART system is failing. Can someone inform me on SMART and tell me if there is anything I can do to save the drive or is it a recycle job? kind regards chris -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
