so has my harddrive crapped out on me?

Hey all... just found this forum and wanted to say hello! Been a mac owner all my life... i remember when we had the Mac Classic back in the day... that was a great computer...

but anyways... The other day i got a warning on my computer stating that my internal harddrive was completely full, even though the other day i had at least 10 gigs left on it... i deleted some of my files and freed up some space, but every couple of seconds the free space would decrease back down to zero. I restarted the system and it was decreasing the harddrive space again... so i ran some disk utilities...

It seems to have stabilized for the around 9 gigs, but it still fluctuates slightly... so is it done for? am i gonna have to send my computer back to apple? help me out you guys!!

Well... My HD well and truly crapped out on me and I didn't experience any of that. What machine is it? OS?

macbook... the middle one.... workin on OS 10.4 i believe... i'm not home at the moment... at work on the evils of windows...

it seems to have stabilized now.... but i'm just wary about it ya know?

Go to About this mac and then > more info

under ATA or Serial ATA you will find the details of your hard drive - what does the S.M.A.R.T status say?

my HD did that right before it failed. If your HD is 3 + yrs old it will probably go down. Spend the 60-100.00 and replace

Before the crash back-up everything you want then do as s-works suggests...get a new HD.

I didn't realize mine was dying and lost photos and spradsheets I hadn't backed up. Very sad.

I understand there is a new Mac peripheral that will back-up everything all the time so if your HD dies you have a perfect clone. Time capsule?

Good luck