Disk Utility: Defrag and Scandisk

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Disk Utility: Defrag and Scandisk

Hey all!

I was looking into running a disk defrag on my computer but apparently defrag runs in the background all the time.

I dropped the macbook while it was on today and I am afraid of a head crash. Is there any utility to run such as scan disk to check for any disk errors?

MacBook Black, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Nov 2, 2006 6:55 PM

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Kappy

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Nov 2, 2006 8:05 PM in response to Silveryello

Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. Select the hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab. In the DU status are look for the SMART info. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive has failed. Otherwise, click on Verify Disk button. If no errors are reported the drive is OK. If errors are reported then you will need to boot from your OS X Installer Disc and run Disk Utility from the installer's Utilities menu. Select your startup volume then click on First Aid tab. Click on the Repair Disk button. If errors are reported that are fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.

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