I tried to download and install OS X Mavericks and get a SMART error. I have Version OS 10.68 and Boot Camp with partition to drive Windows XP. Install progam is showning 2 Drives the Mac Drive and the Windows XP Drive. I selected Mac Drive and that's when it shows the S.M.A.R.T. drive error. Can anyone help me on this one? ~Scott
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
That hard drive is failing. Stop whatever you are doing with that Mac and make sure you have a backup of everything.
That hard drive is failing. Stop whatever you are doing with that Mac and make sure you have a backup of everything.
Agree with Esquared,
- Confirm within 10.6.8 with Disk Utility : Mac OS X 10.6: Checking a disk to see if it’s going to fail
- And with System Profiler within 10.6.8:
- Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More info…. Select Serial-ATA, Firewire etc to find your drive.
- In the bottom frame, check S.M.A.R.T status.
- SMART errors are giving you a warning that it is a matter of a short time that the disk will fail.
Cheers
You were right. Hard Drive failed July 25. I have a back-up on time machine and had to restore everything.🙂
You were right. the hard drive failed July 25 but thank goodness I had Time Machine and was able to restore from Backup!✅
You really should have more than 1 backup as hard drives do fail as you have just seen. Buy another external and use Time machine or a clone to create a 2nd backup.
Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)
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OS X Mavericks download causes S.M.A.R.T error?
