Unable to install Lion - S.M.A.R.T. errors on my hard drive???

Check it via Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) on Snow Leopard:

If that says there's a problem, too, there's likely a problem. 😟

Be sure your backups are up-to-date, and let Apple have a look at it: http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

i have the exact same problem, and on disk utility it says S.M.A.R.T. status "Falling" 😮 this is so weird, just like the OP my mac is running without any problems... saving data ECT. just untill i try installing Lion...

Same problem here - never had any problems with my drive. Hope this is an OS error and that Apple will release a patch..

Same problem here. My HD is dimmed and can't be selected. The message is the disk has SMART errors. Back up and replace disk. No issues in the past either. I have checked disk utility as per previous post and it also says the drive has a problem and can't be repaired. See an apple dealer etc.

Check this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190026?answerId=15675468022#15675468022

A ton of us are having the same issue. Please add to it. We are all also calling apple to let them know. This is not a HW issue. Has to be SW based.

The S.M.A.R.T. status is the drive itself reporting its health. I would tend to believe it if it's saying it is failing.

When was the last time people ran Disk Utility to check the S.M.A.R.T. status before installing Lion?

Was it maybe an issue people just weren't aware of before?

In any event, it does seem to be a call to backup and have it checked out.

Ivan

I am one of those, ran disk utility alomst once a week - never a glitch, downloaded Lion, installed it and had the smart error. I tend to say that the night before there were no errors !

Still now I have, but my machine is still in warranty. so under Ducth law, i will get it working for free. But the time it costst. Worst, Apple doesn't believe you, so plenty of pics befoire something start moving. So i enlisted the largets dutch pc / apple magazine. we'll see.

Thta's why i say - writing you on my faulty mac, it's sw driven.

Hi from Belgium.

My iMac apperars to have partially the same problems as you all have. When I installed Lion from the AppStore it became extremely slow, the spinning wheel keeping spinning for hours. I reinstalled Snow Leopard (clean install) and restored via TM (internal HD and two external disks). I'm really getting mad about this because under SL the Imac is much slower than before. Aperture library seems corrupted. Does anybody can tell me how to downgrade definitely back to SL, expecting Apple to come with un upgrade of Lion.

Did you upgrade your harddrive?

Is it the original HD?

I would tend to think Apple is actually beginning to read SMART data better. In the past the most and sometimes only reliable method was the drive vendor's own utility or SMART Utility ($$) or non-OS tools.

Unless it is a Seagate hard drive of course.

The SMART error, for me occurred after using Bootcamp to creat a partition for Win 7.

Has anyone else used partitions that may have contributed to these SMART errors?

If so, any solutions?

Hi Everyone

Some of you may qualify for a replacement.

http://www.apple.com/au/support/imac-harddrive/

Cheers Tomi

To all: I did not change the internal HD (WD 320 Go). So supposing not to be qualified for a replacement 😟

What makes me mad is the smooth Lion install on my 2007 MBP. How about that ?

On my 24 inch 2008 iMac still having problems with Lion, hard reboot (on/off button) often necessary, with various apps, like Aperture, Firefox etc. Plese anyone ? Apple ? Jobs ?

huh? finally installed Lion on an external hard disk from LaCie; everything is smooth. I suupose that the internal HD is not supported by Lion. If so Apple shoud refund the expenses for buying Lion. Or replace my 320 Gb internal WD disk.

How about that ?

I have a Mac Pro Quad core from 2007. It upgraded to Lion fine but yesterday I noticed one of the four internal drives was showing S.M.A.R.T. status fail, it wasn't even the OS drive. So I powered down, removed the drive and swapped its position with one of the other internal drives. Powered it straight back up and the staus fail was gone, in fact the status read "verified" on the disc that only one minute before had read fail.

In conclusion.....I don't get it. It can't be a hardware fault as it would have moved with the drive?

This screams to me that it's software?

Discuss......