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- MacBook Air mid-2013 4GB, and other machines
I came home and the machine was OFF (not asleep as I expect). Turned it on to boot, did something else, came back...it was off. Repeated again. Hmmm. Booted it and immediately I could, ran the Disk Utility.
Says "invalid extent entry" when I Verify Disk (Repair is grayed out, seems I'd have to boot from the OS Install DVD).
- Machine is a G5 iMac 20" 1.8GHz 2GB RAM OS10.5.8 with a 1TB Western Digital drive which is 2.5 years old (and has a 3 year warranty-yay)
- I calculated the size of the Music and Photo folders: much slower than usual. Everything is slower than usual, from boot-up onwards. (And by this I mean even slower than the slowness I've complained about elsewhere)
- CPU shows abnormally high usage. With just this window open in Safari and no other apps, it's showing nearly 30%. Just before, it climbed up near 100% and seemed to get stuck. Periodically that happens lately.
- Yes, I back up-and I'm doing another increment right now while the machine is running!
A general question would be "once a drive loses a bit of info, is it starting to fail?"
And more specifically, should I run out and replace this sucker right now?
Or ????
Thanks!
Says "invalid extent entry" when I Verify Disk (Repair is grayed out, seems I'd have to boot from the OS Install DVD).
- Machine is a G5 iMac 20" 1.8GHz 2GB RAM OS10.5.8 with a 1TB Western Digital drive which is 2.5 years old (and has a 3 year warranty-yay)
- I calculated the size of the Music and Photo folders: much slower than usual. Everything is slower than usual, from boot-up onwards. (And by this I mean even slower than the slowness I've complained about elsewhere)
- CPU shows abnormally high usage. With just this window open in Safari and no other apps, it's showing nearly 30%. Just before, it climbed up near 100% and seemed to get stuck. Periodically that happens lately.
- Yes, I back up-and I'm doing another increment right now while the machine is running!
A general question would be "once a drive loses a bit of info, is it starting to fail?"
And more specifically, should I run out and replace this sucker right now?
Or ????
Thanks!