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Hard drive malfunctioning...
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So I bought a crappy case a while back that basically refused to work except on occasion. I put about 75GB of music on it when I first got it and then only used it to grab various albums to put on my main hard drive when I wanted to hear them. Recently, i bought a new MacAlly phr-250cc to put the hard drive in. Now, the hard drive loads, but moves very, very, very slowly and occasionally comes to a complete halt for several minutes (i.e. scrolling in a folder with eig hundred folders takes about 10 seconds per "page"). I attempted to do a permissions repair, but Disk Utility said it couldn't even do that, so I tried using DiskWarrior. DW only gets about halfway through the repair, then says something along the lines of "speed inhibited due to disk malfunction." About this time a quiet clicking noise starts in the hard drive, and after this accessing anything on the hard drive is impossible.
Could the bad case have made the drive irreparable? Are there any other utilities that I could use to try and fix it, or would this be a mechanical malfunction?
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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What are the S.M.A.R.T. parameter values?
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I'm afraid it's almost surely a mechanical problem. Backup while you can..
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The only app I could find that would check is SMARTReporter, and the hard drive didn't show up in it (hitachi travelstar 80GB 4200RPM, originally in a PowerBook G3 Firewire that died). So either it doesn't have s.m.a.r.t. or I need a different program to find out.
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I don't believe SMART can be read from firewire drives
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Aaaah, well the case has USB 2.0 as well, so lemme try that.
Edit: Well, the drive will apparently only mount through firewire. When I try with USB2 it just makes a clicking noise as soon as I turn the external case on.
I don't have any other hard drives big enough to store this much data on (my internal is only 30GB, and I have another external 40GB, but only one working external case), so backing up really isn't an option right now.
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Last edited by moofman; Jan 20, 2006 at 02:29 AM.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Disk Utility shows S.M.A.R.T. status (actually... doesn't DiskWarrior do this too? Maybe not).
If the data is valuable to you, back it up, even if you have to buy a stack of DVD-R's to do it. That is, if you can back it up after what happened.
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