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Offline krissel

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« on: February 09, 2013, 09:53:09 PM »
You all know the saying that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results."  (Right, Jim?)

Well, maybe not.

While doing some cloning of one external to another, Drive Genius popped up a window and said my 15" MBP's hard drive was corrupted and needed repair (number of volumes/files were off).  OK, I booted to one of the externals (Mountain Lion install) and ran Drive Genius twice getting a failed repair. Tried rebuild... failure. Then ran Disk Utility which also failed twice giving me the "You need to Erase and Format, blah, blah..."

My copy of Disk Warrior was too old for the OS so I decided to just make sure I had all the recent items from the past day or two up to date, then reformat the drive and copy back the data. The alternative was to order DW and wait til it arrived. UGH.

So I hooked up the 15" MBP  to the new 17" MBP via Target Disk Mode and got ready to wipe, etc.  Then I thought, oh, heck, why not try Disk Utility one more time? Insanity?

Well, I proceeded to watch the little bar and info window do their thing and noticed that they had gone farther than before...then, ta-daaa!
Disk Utility reported it had fixed the drive. I ran Verify just to be sure and yup, it was OK.

Sometimes it does pay to try again, and again, and again...    smile.gif
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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2013, 05:05:48 AM »
I hope that your insanity worked. Bear in mind that Disk Utility is weaker than both Drive Genius and Disk Warrior. It might be prudent to use DG to check the drive, just to be sure. A surface scan might be in order (I believe that DG can do that). If the drive is developing bad blocks, it's on borrowed time.

As the late Sam Levinson quipped, "Insanity is inherited. You get it from your children".
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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2013, 09:18:46 AM »
If I may highlight the other side of the coin, note Freud's definition of mental health: "The ability to love and to work." Period. Freud's writing was brilliant in its minimalism--simplicity and clarity.  Since then, tomes have been written to explain--but really complicate, convolute and confuse--what needed no explanation at all.
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2013, 09:47:25 AM »
"An intermittent problem is not fixed just because it doesn't appear all the time." eek2.gif "It will return when you least want it!" yes.gif
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2013, 03:16:27 PM »
It wasn't a block problem, just directory which I know DW is best at correcting. I will probably order it to have on hand anyway.

DG also gave it a clear Verify verdict afterward.  It runs a monitoring app all the time which alerted me to the problem in the first place.

And I now have at least 4 external backups of each computer.  smile.gif
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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2013, 03:57:23 PM »
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And I now have at least 4 external backups of each computer.
BUT, how many backups of the backups do you have?!!! inspect.gif

BTW, will DW check for mental blocks?! flail.gif Thinking.gif
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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2013, 08:20:13 PM »
krissel, you are more tenacious than I. smile.gif
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« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2013, 12:48:46 PM »
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tenacious
As Google would say, "Did you mean "stubborn?" laughhard.gif
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