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MBP Advice: hard drive failure/time machine problems
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1431329" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Yes. Any time you have a failing disk, simply having it powered on and spinning can further degrade it, let alone running I/O intensive procedures upon it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If it says it completed successfully, then it's OK. If you want to be certain, I'd recommend cloning the drive rather than using TM, which stores backups in Apple's own database format (where you can't actually look at the files, except by going into the Time Machine interface).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1431329, member: 24098"] Yes. Any time you have a failing disk, simply having it powered on and spinning can further degrade it, let alone running I/O intensive procedures upon it. If it says it completed successfully, then it's OK. If you want to be certain, I'd recommend cloning the drive rather than using TM, which stores backups in Apple's own database format (where you can't actually look at the files, except by going into the Time Machine interface). [/QUOTE]
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