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Disk Repair Tools for Intel Macs?
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<blockquote data-quote="sbatson" data-source="post: 258802" data-attributes="member: 15042"><p>All of the SMART stuff was greyed out, so I could not use it for the external drive. I think I read something on the web when searching google that indicated that the SMART tools would not work with external drives, only on drives actually connected to the IDE BUS. </p><p></p><p>I'll checkout SMARTReporter, but if the drive needs to be on the BUS, it's probably not going to work.</p><p></p><p>For the time being, none of this is going to matter, the drive started acting up again. I'm pretty sure that it's failed completely. But I'm going to try reformatting it and testing it on my PC where I have a lot more tools at my disposal currently.</p><p></p><p>thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sbatson, post: 258802, member: 15042"] All of the SMART stuff was greyed out, so I could not use it for the external drive. I think I read something on the web when searching google that indicated that the SMART tools would not work with external drives, only on drives actually connected to the IDE BUS. I'll checkout SMARTReporter, but if the drive needs to be on the BUS, it's probably not going to work. For the time being, none of this is going to matter, the drive started acting up again. I'm pretty sure that it's failed completely. But I'm going to try reformatting it and testing it on my PC where I have a lot more tools at my disposal currently. thanks. [/QUOTE]
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