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    Always repairing disk

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by J12, Dec 2, 2010.

  1. J12

    J12 Notebook Evangelist

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    It seems like I always have to repair my disk on osx. I will notice things slowing down so I fire up disk utility and choose "verify disk" then it tells me i need to boot off the osx cd and run disk utility from there in order to repair my disk so I do that. After it's repaired it runs fine and if I verify disk again everything is okay. But after a month or so I have to do the same thing, boot off the osx disk and repair disk again. How can I fix this problem. Should I format the drive and re-install osx?
     
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  2. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    I would try formatting and re-installing OS X. If that doesn't fix it, your disk is probably going bad, and will need to be replaced.
     
    Nick, Dec 2, 2010
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  3. J12

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    The drive is new but it is a cheap drive. It's a 500gb 5400rpm hitachi. I was thinking about replacing it with a hybrid drive anyways. Would restoring from a time machine backup work after I reformat?
     
    J12, Dec 2, 2010
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    Time Machine works fine as does the program SuperDuper.
     
    gms238, Dec 3, 2010
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  5. Yotsuba

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    Getting the Hitachi is what you did wrong. From what I have been told, Hitachi hard drives are prone to failure. Their desktop models are sometimes referred to as DeathStar drives (name play on DeskStar).
     
    Yotsuba, Dec 3, 2010
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