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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1393448" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>If you want to be more definitively sure your drive is failing, check my advice found here:</p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/267379-too-much-space-used-hard-drive.html#post1372971" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/267379-too-much-space-used-hard-drive.html#post1372971</a></p><p></p><p>You can clone the drive if you like, but be aware that doing so may cause the drive to fail, and you are cloning a drive that likely has a lot of corrupt files. There's ultimately no harm in doing so since you have Time Machine backups, so knock yourself out. However, I would not clone that back to the replacement drive. Plan on reinstalling OS X from scratch and migrate your data from the Time Machine backup.</p><p></p><p>And yes, you could clone to the Time Machine drive if it has adequate space. Actually I would not clone to the drive, but clone to a disk image (dmg). Cloning to the drive would wipe out your Time Machine backups. Be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you know what you are doing though. Mess that up, and you may wind up with no sound backups.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: BTW… if the drive checks out after testing it per my tips, then obviously you have something else going on that needs investigating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1393448, member: 38864"] If you want to be more definitively sure your drive is failing, check my advice found here: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/267379-too-much-space-used-hard-drive.html#post1372971[/url] You can clone the drive if you like, but be aware that doing so may cause the drive to fail, and you are cloning a drive that likely has a lot of corrupt files. There's ultimately no harm in doing so since you have Time Machine backups, so knock yourself out. However, I would not clone that back to the replacement drive. Plan on reinstalling OS X from scratch and migrate your data from the Time Machine backup. And yes, you could clone to the Time Machine drive if it has adequate space. Actually I would not clone to the drive, but clone to a disk image (dmg). Cloning to the drive would wipe out your Time Machine backups. Be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN you know what you are doing though. Mess that up, and you may wind up with no sound backups. EDIT: BTW… if the drive checks out after testing it per my tips, then obviously you have something else going on that needs investigating. [/QUOTE]
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