S.M.A.R.T. Statius failing 27' iMac

Opened up disk utility today to repair disk permissions and the main 1TB ST3100........drive is in red. "This drive has a hardware problem that can't be repaired" " Back up data and replace disk" Is stated in the right window.
S.M.A.R.T Status: In red "Failing"
I can verify Macintosh HD and Repair permissions from the sub menu of the drive. The 27' iMac seems to be operating fine. Any ideas?

I would follow Barry's advice.....you might also want to try the Apple Hardware Test just to see what it says....
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509

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10/2/13 9:20:27.587 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Copied 1558 files (2.4 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
10/2/13 9:20:28.894 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Created new backup: 2013-10-02-212027
10/2/13 9:20:32.846 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Starting post-backup thinning
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10/2/13 9:23:19.037 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-08-10-132056 (14 MB)
10/2/13 9:25:12.837 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-08-10-120140 (159.3 MB)
10/2/13 9:25:25.927 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-09-07-124051 (5.2 MB)
10/2/13 9:26:32.288 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Deleted /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb/Macintosh/2013-09-07-122250 (86.1 MB)
10/2/13 9:26:32.288 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Post-back up thinning complete: 5 expired backups removed
10/2/13 9:26:32.980 PM com.apple.backupd[1835]: Backup completed successfully.
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10/2/13 10:14:15.315 PM com.apple.backupd[1903]: Starting automatic backup
10/2/13 10:14:15.000 PM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1380766457
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10/2/13 10:22:29.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:30:00.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
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10/2/13 10:34:31.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 10:41:28.953 PM AddressBookSourceSync[1925]: [CardDAVPlugin-ERROR] -[CDXAccount oauthToken]: Failed to find account for identifier: F50ABFD9-1476-4AFF-A120-D99EEA697FC5
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entries =>
          0 : Case Insensitive Key: Pragma = <CFString 0x7fdd1a0c4f20 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "no-cache"}
          1 : Case Insensitive Key: X-FB-Rev = <CFString 0x7fdd1a012cd0 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "955235"}
          2 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Type = <CFString 0x7fdd1a053590 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "text/plain; ; charset="utf-8""}
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          9 : Case Insensitive Key: Www-Authenticate = <CFString 0x7fdd19436e60 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "OAuth realm="Facebook WebDAV", Basic realm="Facebook WebDAV""}
          10 : Case Insensitive Key: Content-Length = <CFString 0x7fff7644a0a0 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "40"}
          11 : Case Insensitive Key: Cache-Control = <CFString 0x7fdd1a083d10 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"}
          12 : Case Insensitive Key: Expires = <CFString 0x7fdd1a051c50 [0x7fff76470110]>{contents = "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT"}
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10/2/13 10:44:34.060 PM com.apple.backupd[1903]: Backing up to: /Volumes/LaCie TIME MACHINE/Backups.backupdb
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10/2/13 10:51:36.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100801 ms
10/2/13 10:54:36.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100772 ms
10/2/13 10:57:37.000 PM kernel[0]: IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0xffffff8016215400, 3 -> 2) timed out after 100747 ms
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10/2/13 11:14:09.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s2: I/O error.
10/2/13 11:14:39.000 PM kernel[0]: disk2s1: I/O error.
10/2/13 11:15:15.000 PM kernel[0]: nspace-handler-set-snapshot-time: 1380770117

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For some reason, the mail application on my iMac fails to log into my MobileMe/iCloud email account. It only affects one of my account, the other two work flawlessly. I am able to access this same email account from Safari and my smartphone. What gives?!?! I deleted the mail account and re-added it, I checked the various email/firewall settings... this is really ******* me off! Will someone please provide some help and/or incite? Thank you advance.

I think I may have found the issue: I am running 10.6, so MobileMe is still the 'program' that it tries to access and, apparently, the default settings are no longer valid. After deleting the the account, I attempted to add the account again, which of course failed. I hit 'continue' at the bottom of the page after the fail and went to the next page which had a drop down menu with the following choices: MobileMe, POP, IMAP, etc. Changing from the default MobileMe to IMAP did the trick.

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Here.... my new imac late 2012.
Try to restore previous backup time machine of imac 27 mid 2012 with same OS mountain lion.
At the end of the restore fail.
Fail because when open user i have non email no folder on desktop,no preference settings.... nothing.... only apps on folder macintosh hd.
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It sounds like you're selecting your internal HD in the backups and clicking the Restore button. If so, that won't work (unfortunately, Apple doesn't make that clear).
If you're trying to restore your entire system, see Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #14.
If you want to restore selected files/folders (but not your entire home folder or OSX drive), see FAQ #15.
If you're trying to do something else, please clarify.

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I have a late 2006 iMac and cannot get SL to install. Every time I try something different I still get the "Could not install the necessary support files" error. Here is what I have tried:
- Clean install of SL on erased drive (including a 7-pass erase), fail.
- Installed Leopard, then upgrade, fail.
- installed Tiger even, then upgrade, fail.
- Thought I had bad DVD, returned it to Apple store, new disk but same problems.
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The only thing I have not tried is booting from an external drive. Have other iMac users with these problems with SL had success this way? I mean I don't like the fact that anytime I want to reinstall my operating software that I will have to go through this circus.
Any other ideas to try? What has worked for others?
Help!

A 2006 24" iMac should be the same as mine and I installed SL on 2 of them with no problems at all. It's really very weird that you should be having this problem even after reformatting the drive.
Only thing I can think of that might be causing this is hardware problems, most likely the DVD drive is going bad. Or perhaps the motherboard, but I think you would have had many more problems than this if it was the motherboard. You might even have a hard drive going bad, which seems unlikely after doing a 7 pass erase. That will usually isolate any bad blocks.
As someone said you can do a remote install from another Mac if you have one or can get the use of one. You could also try hooking up an external DVD drive and see if that works. Make sure it's firewire, that works much better, but USB 2 should still work if you have no choice. If a remote or external DVD works then it is most likely the the internal DVD.
Kevin

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HI
It says Error starting CC cookies dir: cannot make folder/cookies: Permission denied (error13) MacOs 10.7.5 Cookies are enabled.
Anyone an idea?
Thanks
Gerhard

Link for Download & Install & Setup & Activation problems may help
-Chat http://www.adobe.com/support/download-install/supportinfo/
OR
Some download & install troubleshooting links
-Comodo Security kills download http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1460361?tstart=0
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/error-downloading-cc-apps.html
-http://forums.adobe.com/community/download_install_setup
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/troubleshoot-cc-installation-download.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/errors-or-unexpected-behavior-websites.html
-http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unknown-server-error-launching-cc.html
-Server won't connect https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1233088
-Enable Mac Root User https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1156604
-more Root User http://forums.adobe.com/thread/879931
-and more root user http://forums.adobe.com/thread/940869?tstart=0

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