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Hard drive correuption?

My Macbook Pro has recently started to slow down, a sign of me possibly needing a new hard drive. I have 35 GB's left on my drive of space, but I recently went to the Disk Utility and verified the disc. After doing that a message came up telling me I needed to repair the disk due to a corrupt file. Hold CMD R while restarting and use Disk Utility. I followed those directions, verified again through it but it came back as OK. I'm not sure what's going on. Can anyone shed some light on my situation?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 4, 2013 3:44 PM

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steve359

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Posted on Jan 4, 2013 3:46 PM

OSX needs breathing room. if 35 GB is less than 15% of the disk, your OSX is having some minor issues keeping its operations straight probably.

You should start freeing space and your Mac will likely speed up some.

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Jan 4, 2013 4:41 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

Which part exactly? 😉

I want to know which drive are old, in Steves eyes.

Your drive seems young enough for SMART.... Please, create a backup of your data. Then install another App for SMART related things. The AppStore has a great one (starting with Smart, dont know the exact name, sorry). It can scan all values and can run a short test on the drive. If it really has no SMART support, forget it.

Does your drive make some weird noises?

steve359

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Jan 4, 2013 4:45 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

lancefromvestavia hills wrote:

I ordered a 500GB hard drive, but if I got the 750 hard drive on your first link how would I put that in my mac? Is that black box just a case and I would (clone) my current hard drive using the other link you gave me?

Macbook Pros take 2.5 in format that is 9.5 mm tall. Usually that means 750 GB tops, as most 1 TB drives are 3.5 in drives.

The first is a combo-drive-enclosure.

You ordered a drive already? A bare drive or an enclosure?

Jan 4, 2013 4:49 PM in response to steve359

It's 500 GB, not enclosed. Bare. I need to get a transfer kit from the Macsales store?

steve359

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Jan 4, 2013 4:51 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

I sent a link that looks like a toaster. You can slide that drive in to clone to it.

Then after clone you can transplant it in, assuming it is 2.5 in format and 9.5 mm tall max.

But you will still want at least one more drive to use as an ongoing backup drive that is 2-3x the size of your internal drive.

ifixit.com has instructions to replace HDs.

Jan 4, 2013 4:56 PM in response to steve359

Anyway to transfer without spending $75? Like a cable lol

Jan 4, 2013 5:00 PM in response to steve359

Would I be able to use something like this? http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/

steve359

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Jan 4, 2013 5:00 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

That toaster will allow re-use of any 3.5 or 2.5 in drive.

Depends on how valuable your data is.

You should read that aticle I linked, to learn about the backup methods. You should be comfortable with what "clone" means before you do the work.

And you will need *something* to enclose that drive for clone.

I may not be answer for a bit on this.

steve359

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Jan 4, 2013 5:02 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

I would not. USB 3.0 is very new to Macs, and just because it says it *can* do USB 2.0 does not mean older USB 2.0 macs will.

Just my opinion.

Jan 4, 2013 5:03 PM in response to steve359

Thank you for your help. I'll try to research a way to transfer my data to the hard drive.

Jan 4, 2013 5:33 PM in response to steve359

Steve359, I went a head and purchased the transfer cable since it claimed its compatible with USB 2.0. It seems I just plug the hard drive into the adaptor and install the software via that. I'm going to follow the instructions

http://eshop.macsales.com/articles/how-to-transfer-your-data-from-your-old-drive -to-a-new-drive#choose

That seems very straight forward, and easy to do. I won't have to worry about cloning. I'm just going to erase the old hard drive afterward and throw it away. Crossing my fingers! Thank you so much for your help, I honestly was lost without you.

Jan 9, 2013 5:41 PM in response to steve359

Hey, follow up. I restarted my computer once more, and verified the disc. It still showed corrupt, so I tried to repair it once more. To my surprise it repaired, I'm not sure what happened but this time it went all the way through. I'm not sure if I should trust it though.

steve359

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Jan 9, 2013 6:06 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

I would not trust the disk.

Get a newer, possibly larger, possibly faster from macsales.com, or newegg.

I gave you the size specs already.

Jan 10, 2013 6:18 PM in response to steve359

THe drive came into today, got OS X loaded on it and transferred my information over usin migration assistance. After I did that it came to a name and password screen. I could not log in under normal password or admin password. Any clue on getting passed this? i can boot my other drive and log in using my normal log in info.

Kappy

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Jan 10, 2013 8:27 PM in response to lancefromvestavia hills

Yes, that should be a usable too..

Hard drive correuption?