How do you know when your hard drive is failing

Having trouble turning on computer and computer freezing and getting a blue screen. Videos freeze. Do I need a new hard drive for my Imac Hard drive has errors.

Boot your machine with the install disc that came with it, launch Disk Utility and repair the disk. If that passes, then boot your machine with the supplied Apple Hardware Test disc and run the extended tests, at least twice. If that passes, download and run Rember,

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HT2173 How to know when a hard drive has failed ?

How to know when a hard drive has failed ?

Machine doesn't boot. You experience strange crashes. Gets wrong results. Your harddrive is five or more years old. Time to consider repacing it.   You do have backup?
You may want to run these "standard" fixes if the problem persists.
1) Check the amount of free space on your harddrive. You should have a several gigs free.
2) You should run disk utility
     a) verify the disk
     b) update your permissions.
3) Try a safe boot.
    Shutdown your machine. Hold down the shift key. Poweron. Wait awhile Wait awhile while you harddrive
      is being checked.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
4) You may want to run applejack to clean up your machine.
     http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
a lot more ways to fix your Mac.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html
verify & repair your startup drive
To verify & repair you file system on the startup drive, you will need to run disk utility from you installation DVD.
This article will tell you how to get to disk utility. Once in a disk utility, you can go and attempt to recover the disk.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
To repair your startup drive, you will need to run disk utility from your startup DVD.
Mac OS X 10.4: About the utilities available on the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2055
How to run disk utility from your startup DVD.
Insert your startup DVD into your reader. Power down your machine. Hold down to the c key. Power on your machine. This will bootup your startup DVD.
This will bring you to a panel asking you for your language. Pick your language.
You you come to the Install Mac OS panel. Do not install.
Click on Utilities menu item. This will give you a pulldown list of utilities.
Click on the disk utility.
You are now in disk utility. Pick your disk. Click on repair it should be on the lower right of the panel.
Once the repair completes successfully, you should update your permissions.
Verify a disk
As an alternative, you can verify that the filesystem on the disk is correct. You will not be able to repair the file system.
I suggest that you use disk utility to verify that your startup disk is OK.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
Start up disk utility. On the left pane view, you will see a list of all your disks.
Click on your startup disk.
Click on the First Aid Tab.
Click on verify.
Hopefully your disk will verify. If not, you have to boot from your installation DVD and run Disk Utility from there to attempt to repair your file-system.

How do you know when your MacBook is infected?

Hey All. Well my question is how do you know when your MacBook is infected with a virus? I came off windows and i have norton antivirus so i have something to tell me there. But on the Mac OS you rarely get viruses and i dont have a anitvirus program, so how do you know when you have one? And what does it do?
Thanks!

Since no ones got one that I know of it is hard to say. I figure that when the day comes that someone writes a Mac virus you will know real quick what happens. If your concerned you could use ClamXav. I use it if I download something for my wife's PC but have never found anything yet.

How can you know when your Apple Pass word has expired?

How do you know when your Apple password expires?

They were wrong. Apple Passwords don't expire. Unless you choose to change it, your Apple password can stay with you forever.

HT1386 How do you know when your back up is complete from you ipad to computer

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back up is on your computer when finished

Check bar at top centre.
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How do I know if my hard drive is failing?

I have a Mid-2012 13" Macbook Pro.
I've been having problems with it running really slowly since August of last year, but I haven't gone around to doing much about it yet.
Every time I try to do anything on it - even if I'm just typing - I get the spinning beach ball.
I opened disk utility and checked the S.M.A.R.T status and it said it was not supported. I reset my computer and checked it again and it said it was verified this time? So I don't know what's up with that.
Could that mean that my hard drive is failing, and if so, how do I make completely sure that's what's happening so I don't waste money on a replacement hard drive?

One common problem that leads to slow computers is adding too much junk.
If you restart your computer in Safe mode, and everything is nice and fast again, you should be suspicious of the 'too much junk' problem.
Too much junk can only be solved by carefully un-installing the junk -- no cleaner programs can tell you that you should never have installed that widget that turns the screen purple, shows font-names in their own fonts, or makes the MenuBar black instead of white.

How do you know when your raid controller has gone bad?

I fired up my xserve raid 14X400 with 2X512mb Raid Controllers and drives 1-7 on the left won't show up at all. I swapped the controllers and then drives 8-14 won't show up. I have been trying to update the firmware from 1.5 to the latest and keep getting an error with the upper controller. I can't find anywhere that you can buy a new controller. Anybody know what I should do? My apple warranty ended in June and I didn't update it so Apple isn't going to help. What should I do? Can you have the controller card itself serviced? Thanks for any help. Also, I'm hoping that my media is still good?
Todd Stanley
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Hi
If you have swopped the controllers around and the problem follows the controller then that is a pretty good indication that something is not quite right with the controller. Obviously reseating - basically pulling out the affected controller, a good blast of air inside to remove and dust/grit that might possibly be stopping a good connection and pushing it back again - the controller to see if that makes a difference is one thing you should do. Swopping them over effectively does this anyway. What does the events log in RAID Admin say? There is usually some indication in the log if there has been a problem.
Its an obvious question and possibly you may have forgotten it in the panic but when you purchased the XServe RAID did you not take up the spare parts kit option? If you did install the replacement controller. If you did not and in view of the fact you did not take out the extended warranty seems overly optimistic, your only recourse in my view is to remove the affected controller and send it to your nearest Apple Repair Specialist - or deal with Apple themselves. They should send you a replacement under their Global Service Exchange Program. Make sure you send the faulty part as well as knowing the XServe RAID’s Serial Number. They should send a 90 day warranty replacement within 2 days. If you are in the UK its going to be expensive (approx £350VATshipping). Actually its going to be expensive wherever you are.
There is a possibility that one of the other guys knows a method of getting this going again and will hopefully post a suggestion soon. However the sooner you act on this the sooner you can get your RAID array back on line. I do hope you have a current and effective backup in place just in case. You should be doing this anyway.
Hope this helps, Tony

How do you know when your iphone 4s is done charging if your phone is turned off?

Does it have to be turned on to see if it's hit 100%? I have an older generation Ipod that has a battery symbol when charging and you know it's 100% charged when all the bars are full- it comes up as an icon on the screen. This is my first time charging the phone since I got it so just nervous if it's actually charging.

If you plug your iPhone in to charge, even if it is turned off, it will turn on.
However, if you turn it off during a charge, there will be no notification that it has completed its charge.

How would you set up your hard drives if you had these to work with

So I currently have :
1 internal 1 Tb 7200 HDD
1 internal 300gb 7200 HDD
This is all im using right now, but I also have a 3 TB external that I use to store media and also edit from. I was bringing the footage into the internal drives to edit from but space was growing thin.
I bought other drives to redo my entire hard drive set up while incorporating the old ones as well
1 2 Tb internal 7300 HDD
2 250gb SSD (They are however not the same brand.)
If someone could please give an opinion on how they would set these up from scratch that would be swell, or you can also recommend adding in another drive into the mix as well.

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Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST2000NM0033 2 TB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com
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SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA

How do you know when your green box will be upgrad...

My local exchange (Langley) was upgraded over a year ago and a couple of green boxes in the area were upgraded but I can't find any info on when my box will be done. How can I find out this info? BT seem to be happy to advertise the exchnge upgrades but this is irrelevant if your green cabinet isn't upgraded.
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Dean a Bt forum Mod offered to help someone with similar enquiry.
As he mentioned "others" I hope he will not mind me guiding you to his post.
Message #13 is Deans post and #15 is the contact form in this thread.- http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/Query-on-BT-Wholesale-Checker-Information/td-p/308681/page/2
I used to be able to help by using your Post Code but my list is so out of date now it's not worth using...
Dean has access to current info.
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When setting up a new ipad how do you know what your user name is?

When setting up a new ipad how do you know what your user name is?

How to set up Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2731

How do you know if your Iphone app is connecting to the internet?

I'm a brand new Iphone user and I have a question about apps. I only have the smallest data plan. I'm wondering how do you know if your app (or any app you download) once opened connects to the internet?
For instance I have a Netflix subscription. When I hit the Netflix app is that connecting to the internet? When I watch a movie or tv in my own que is that still on the internet?
Or what about the Kindle app or iBooks? Is it on the internet to read?
Those are just two small examples. I'm having a hard time figuring out which apps to download based on if they connect to the internet for their use.

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On IOS 7, how can you tell when your battery is charging for your phone?

on IOS 7, how can you tell when your battery is charging for your phone?

thanks everyone=you all helped.
I wasn't used to not getting the 2 sided plug- now I know I am ok>
**hugs**

How do you know when the music is synced to an ipod classic? I don't see it showing it in the window.

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If you have access to a Mac couldn't you receive your verification via iMessage and work to view you iCloud Account?

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Read the top of the page I gave you the link to. The
latest update that you do not have only added more
support for the Shuffle. If you are not having any
problems leave as is. If you have problems then
download the update. It will ask you for your user
ID. Once you install the updater, your computer will
reboot.
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* iPod with video
Everything is working fine Barb with the ipod but I was under the assumption that if an update is available, I should download it...

How do you know when your hard drive is failing

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