SMART error

Yes, and was easy from Snow Leopard. My MB Pro HD crashed. Installed a new one, formatted the disk and used the disk utiltiy for a complete restore from Time Mach, including Snow Leo.

It was my first HD crash and restore so I was a wreck. So after years of Time Mach backups I;m glad I did them.

My friend had a heck of a time with migration from back up. My complete restore was ok.

But now I am getting the smart error on my iMac.

Totally agree. If you can afford to own a Mac, you gotta get a ext hd for back ups. Just wait until you have a failure. You will curse the day without a back up.

after talking on the phone with a apple rep they founded out that the HD had to be replace so I took my imac in this morning to apple store and they checked it they gonna replace HD free of charge will be ready couple of days.....

Same problem. iMac 27", never had any problems with the drive - certain it's an OS problem. Praying Apple will release a patch as I definitely don't have the time to have my HD replaced for a software error.

I'm confirming that downloading Lion into external HD then install it back to iMac HD is no solving the issue i still got the same message SMART error!

Same SMART error message with my iMac9,1 (early 2009). My MacBookPro did the install no prob. I'll wait and see what Apple comes up with. Personally i really doubt this is a hard ware problem... Some sort of official statement from Apple would be in order right about now...

Okay just an update... i was with a senior technician and he suggested that i must do something called a "Zero-out date" he wants to erase all data from the main HD and install a NEW SL (snow leopard) version. The reason is he wants to know if i can still install OS or snow leopard in that so-called SMART error or not.

If the new virsion of snow leopard installed correctly, then there is a big chance that my HD has no problme otherwise it sould give me same SMART error message even with snow leopard.

So i go ahead and do the zero out date and guess what? i'm still able to install snow leopard in my HD or in another say there was no SMART error message appears during the instillation os SL!

my next step is to install Lion OS and see what will happn. I'll let you konow once my SL finished.

Cheers

Same problem here. I have a Mac mini 09. And no problems until Lion. Tried re installing SL and erasing the drive but it wont even erase. First FCX and now this!! What is going on at Apple???? Are they hiring Dell programers now? Who is going to pay for our HDisks????? Im always recomend Mac but they are letting us down big time. Its becoming another computer company.

Still got same SMART error!

NO POINT of deleting your HD and installing a new SL you'll have same error if you try to install lion os.

Same problem here. I have a 27" imac late 2009 model and downloaded Lion, during instal my HD was dimmed, and couldn't select it because of SMART error message. Same as almost everyone else in this thread.

I think every one should call apple and report their problme because apple techs still believe it's a hardwear problme.

I wiped out my HD, then did a restore with SL no problem. I attempted to do the same thing with a Lion boot disk I created and it still fails.

Why doesn't SL recognize the problem when attempting to install? I have an appointment at Apple tomorrow to bring in my iMac.... I wonder how much they'll charge me to replace a HD that isn't actually failing?

I'm in the same boat and anxious for a solution. By the views to the forum, there are lots of more people with the same problem. I've been using this computer for 2 years with this smart problem and everything seems fine. Apple should give a resolution for this.

Same issues... My 27" iMac is less than a year old and having the same message!

Ok, so update. I spent ~ 1 hour on the phone with apple support this morning and they had me try to check the HD SMART status from the boot disk and the same issue popped up, but when i try to verify the disk, it verifies with no issues. They set up an appointment at the Apple store closest to me for tomorrow at 10am for me to take my iMac in.

I was very clear that i did not want to pay for this issue as it was never triggered before lion install and my system operates perfectly. They said they would make note of it. From what i was told, SMART status is HW controlled and not SW controlled.

Will advise more after tomorrow's appointment. Would recommend your issues be escalated as well. There has to be many many more of us with this issue if this thread is already so long and lion only launched 2 days ago. If you dont speak up, they will NOT fix it and say that your machine is the one that is defective...

Let your voice be heard...