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Mac hard drive test software - creating the definitive list. Disk Utility, diskutil (FREE, comes with OS) Smartmon Tools (FREE, Open Source) SMARTReporter ($4.95 for commercial version, but an older version is FREE) Scannerz Lite ($21.95) Scannerz with Phoenix and FSE-Lite ($39.95) Disk Tools Pro ($79.99) Disk Warrior ($99.00) Drive Genius ($99.00). SMART Utilityis an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements (called attributes) of a hard drive's operation. Disk Utility from /Applications/Utilities works equally well for internal and for external disks (as long as they are attached via Firewire, USB or Thunderbolt). If you are familiar with Terminal, you can also use fsck to check filesystems. You’ll need an offline Mac installer to run Disk Utility off a USB drive. When you reboot, you’ll see the OS X Utilities window. At the bottom of the list is Disk Utility. Select Disk First Aid to.
I have a macbook air (out of warranty) that is throwing -36 errors from the finder in 10.6.2. This is a huge problem since the file throwing the error is part of a VM virtual disk. I've tracked it down to disk corruption, it's not the VM software.
The problem is, how the heck do you run something like DiskWarrior on this machine? I can't fix a disk that I'm booting from. So, I took the machine apart only to find the HDD is not a type I have ever seen, and my tools give me no way to mount it over USB as I could with a normal laptop hard drive. Due to lack of firewire, there's no target disk mode.
So. I have a corrupt hard drive, I have spent money on diagnostics and repair software, and there is no way apparently to run it.
What next?
The problem is, how the heck do you run something like DiskWarrior on this machine? I can't fix a disk that I'm booting from. So, I took the machine apart only to find the HDD is not a type I have ever seen, and my tools give me no way to mount it over USB as I could with a normal laptop hard drive. Due to lack of firewire, there's no target disk mode.
So. I have a corrupt hard drive, I have spent money on diagnostics and repair software, and there is no way apparently to run it.
What next?
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Hard Drive Diagnostic Tool For Mac
Posted on Dec 11, 2009 3:08 PM