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XScan says my hard disk may be about to expire.....

Hello, does anyone have experience of XScan, please? My time capsule recently expired after 7 years and now XScan says my hard disk is damaged and might expire at any moment. Disk utility verifies disk (which does not have SMART ) and I cannot see what else to do.

I have done backup on new Airport Time Capsule. Should I take the threat seriously? Any advice appreciated.

(early 2008 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 6 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM - OSX Yosemite 10.10.3))

2.8GHz Core 2 Duo

Posted on Apr 19, 2015 6:26 AM

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Posted on Apr 19, 2015 1:29 PM

I know nothing about xScan - it appears to show system stats already available on OS X, but within one application.

Having a current backup is the best thing you can do - ALWAYS. Who knows if your hard drive is going to fail - they all do, sooner or later.

If it makes you feel more secure, get another external drive and make a bootable clone backup, that you can swap into your Mac if it fails.

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Apr 19, 2015 1:29 PM in response to snapper6

I know nothing about xScan - it appears to show system stats already available on OS X, but within one application.

Having a current backup is the best thing you can do - ALWAYS. Who knows if your hard drive is going to fail - they all do, sooner or later.

If it makes you feel more secure, get another external drive and make a bootable clone backup, that you can swap into your Mac if it fails.

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Apr 19, 2015 1:29 PM in response to snapper6

You should have 2 backups because as already pointed out, hard drives do fail.

Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)

Clone – Data Backup

Clone – Deja Vu

Clone - SuperDuper

Clone Software – 6 Applications Tested

Time Machine Versus Clones and Archives

Commonly Used Backup Methods

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snapper6 Author

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Apr 19, 2015 1:32 PM in response to greg sahli

Thank you. Dumped it to a stand alone harddrive as well as Time Capsule and now ....we just wait.........

Thanks for your support...

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snapper6 Author

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Apr 19, 2015 1:34 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks, Eric. Good to know there are people out there willing to help.

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