In the disk utility my S.A.M.A.R.T is written in red
in the disk utility my S.A.M.A.R.T is written in red
That generally means your hard drive is failing and needs to be replaced.
Backup your files right away. If your Mac is under warranty, schedule an appointment to have it serviced.
If it's not under warranty, you may be able to do the replacement yourself fairly easily, depending on how old your MacBook is.
~Lyssa
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Looks bad. I would strongly advise backing up the stuff on the other two partitions as soon as possible in case the rest of the drive goes wrong.
Beyond that, Disk Utility has limited abilities to repair disks, DiskWarrior uses a different approach and might, emphasis might be more successful. It has certainly done the job for me in the past when Disk Utility could not.
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Hard drive is missing. I can boot from the cd but when running the disk utility, no hard drive shows up.
This is a problem that suddenly appeared.Please post a screenshot of Disk Utility that shows what you mean. Be careful not to include any private information.
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I have a grey screen and grey rotating wheel startup probs. I have tried repairing with the disk utility, resetting PRAM, booting in safe mode (which gave a subset of the errors that 'disk repair' did- namely- 'invalid sibling link,invalid record count, invalid node structure, invalid key length) and finally trying to get to archive&install the o/s, but it cannot find the destination volume. Is an erase the only option? PS I have backed up most files individually, but my daughter did not back up any from her user account. Any help would be appreciated. JGray, Blue or White screen at boot, w/spinner/progress bar
Why is my computer slow?
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I am trying to upgrad the hard drive in my mac book pro using the disk utility in an attempt to clone my old hard drive. I can only get so far throughj the process where its about to start cloing when I get a message " error 254". Any idea what that means and how do I get around this issue so I can use my new hard drive? Thanks for your input.
VinceConnect the HDD to your MBP. Open Disk Utility>Erase and drag the HDD icon inrt the Name field. The format should be Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Click on the Erase button.
Then try the clone process again. You may use Disk Utility>Restore or a third party cloning application such as Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper.
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My MacBook pro won't recognize hard drive I put in it. It boots only to a white screen unless I boot to my recovery USB. If I do that then I can select my USB and my external time machine drive in the disk utility, so no problems there. But what do you think it is? It won't recognize any hard drive I put in the machine, so might it be the sata cable?
Boot the Recvoery USB, use Disk Utility to select the internal drive makers namea and size on the left.
Now select erase and select the midde option and click erase, it will take a bit to complete but it's best for the drive.
Now select Partiton tab, click the big box and Options: GUID and then Format: OS X Extended journaled and click apply.
Quit and you should be able to install OS X now with your Apple ID and password.
see
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant-tool-makes-external- lion-boot-recovery-drives/ -
When I reboot my mac it automatically launches disk utilities. i have run the utility. all clear. but each time i reboot i get the disk utility. how do i override so i can have my hard drive back?
What OSX version is it?
Does holding alt key at bootup show any boot choices?
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My laptop was running slow while in the regular mode, but in safe mode it would work fine. I deleted all of the content through the disk utility. Once I would go back to the recovery mode prompt and click on install os I go to the next page and get a prompt that says mac os x 10.7 is not available. There also is no picture to the left of the OS system like most people have on their recovery mode screen on the install option. Please help!
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I was planning on buying one of those lens cleaners discs here soon and then see what happens.
That might do. There is the 'poor man's' alternative. Take a fine microfiber cloth (eyeglasses cleaning cloth) and wrap it around a business card. Insert it gently into the slot. Some times it works. Do not dismiss the possibility that the DVD drive is kaput.
I did purchase this laptop from my brother a couple years ago. He told me the first operating system that was on the laptop was OS X 10.6. He gave me the disc to install,
According to the information that I have, a Mid 2009 MBP came with Leopard (10.5). You will have to install Leopard (if you have the original disk) or purchase from the online store a Snow Leopard (10.6.3) retail disk.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
This disk is a requisite in order to install and run Lion (10.7) or any other newer OSX. You have to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 before downloading and installing Lion.
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My mac keeps freezing, the disk utility states the hardrive is failing
Hi. My desktop was upgraded to the snow leopard and has had increasing problems with freezing. Now it wont start up at all, so I have to open it with the Disk 1 OS.. then I went to the disk utility to try and repair it. But it says the hard drive is failing. When I did the hard drive test, it passed without any issues. I am confused and cannot restart my computer.
If by the "hard drive test" you mean the Apple Hardware Test (AHT) that you run by starting up the Mac into it, it is possible (but not very likely) that reformatting the HD using Disk Utility while booted from the installer DVD & then reinstalling the OS from the same source will set things right.
To do the reformat, select the entire HD & use the "Partition" tab to choose a new, single partition scheme from the popup.
But if you cannot even get that far, or the process fails, then your drive is dying, even if AHT can't detect it. -
So I recently removed my partition so I can repartition but its telling me to do something with the disk utility I don't understand what I'm suppose to do?
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So I recently removed my partition so I can repartition but its telling me to do something with the disk utility I don't understand what I'm suppose to do?
Unless you tell us what it is telling you we can't help. -
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In this day my computer erase all the program,files, and the operating sistem. i need to format my computer but when i go to install the operatting system again the hd icon dont appear. What can i do?
im running whith the cd install 1 and then go to the menu bar and in disk utility.
Then in the disk utility it doesn't appear anything no appear the H D and no appear the driver of cd or dvd . How can it be possible that all the computer is in blank. I make the test of the hardware (by pressing the D of the keypad when is starting) and the result was the hardware don't have any problem. -
TS2570 I can not get the disk utility to verify disk permissions.
I can't get the Disk Utility to verify Disk Permissions.
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I lost the hd recovery in my mac. I already erased and the hardrve using the disk utility but then if i try to install the os x using os x utility it sees that could not find installation information for this machine .. Plz help
Recovery Partition – Recreate Without Reinstalling
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Can I use the Disk Utility Application to backup bootcamp windows 7?
Can I use the Disk Utility Application to backup Bootcamp that has Windows 7 on it? If I install a new blank drive, I would like to know that using Time Machine I can get the MAC OS back and using the Disk Image Utility I can restore Bootcamp with Windows 7.
NO.
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There are programs that will clone an entire drive (sector) as well.
DU does not though. Paragon does support Boot Camp. -
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So I can't format the disk in the Time Capsule
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What can I do?
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Type in the following.
AFP://TCname or AFP://TCIpaddress (obviously you replace with the actual name or the actual IP address).
If that fails..
try
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Here is the screenshot.
tardis4 being the name of my TC.
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