Can a bad download cause my spin retry cycle to suddenly fail?
Hey everyone,
So I recently left for a few days on vacation and my younger sibling was using my macbook pro while I was gone. Well, they were downloading something and all of the sudden application stopped and internet cut out. The Internet wouldnt come back for 6 hours (thats how long it took them to fix it!). He was afraid and stopped using my computer (im guessing he was using utorrent or something equally stupid). Well, when i came back and started to use my macbook, it would not stop screen freezing. I get the beach ball of death CONSTANTLY, and its become a terrible hindrance to my university work.
So after trying everything, I downloaded techtool pro 7. I have used the Smart function, and was astonished to see that everything was perfect except one category. Spin retry cycle is very high, to the point where its almost failing. After smacking my sibling around in anger (kidding), i now come to everyone here for some solutions! I have read that spin retry cycle is a imminent indication to hard drive failure, but I really cant see how this is possible. My macbook was PERFECT before I left. All my sibling did was do the download, have the download suddenly freeze, have the internet cut out for some reason, and then in fear shut down my computer. The freezing started immediately after this "frozen download". Could this spin cycle warning be from something other than hard drive failure? Like I said, this was an overnight thing. Perfect to freezing. Could the download have corrupted a file or fragmented a file to cause this? Is there any possible way other than replacing the whole hard drive to fix this? Will defraging help?
Thank you so much for your time!!
If the Safari reset or Font check doesn't help, the issue is either at the software (OS X) or hardware (hard drive) level. In the IT world it all comes down to how much time you want to spend dealing with/fixing the problem.
This is a shot in the dark, but create a new user account, see how the performance is.
The last thing in my bag of tricks is to re-install the MacOS.
Run a Time Machine backup to an external hard drive first.
Be sure that you have all of your licence keys and installers for any paid software.
Then boot up in recovery and connect to the internet
Erase the disk
Run the MacOS installer.
Otherwise, if performance is not better with a fresh Lion installation, get a new disk
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