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<blockquote data-quote="Head_Unit" data-source="post: 1178099" data-attributes="member: 135495"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Says "invalid extent entry" when I Verify Disk (Repair is grayed out, seems I'd have to boot from the OS Install DVD).</p><p></p><p>- 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)</p><p>- 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)</p><p>- 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.</p><p>- Yes, I back up-and I'm doing another increment right now while the machine is running! </p><p></p><p>A general question would be "once a drive loses a bit of info, is it starting to fail?"</p><p>And more specifically, should I run out and replace this sucker right now?<img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Money-Mouth.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":$" title="Money Mouth :$" data-shortname=":$" /></p><p></p><p>Or ????</p><p>Thanks!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Head_Unit, post: 1178099, member: 135495"] I came home and the machine was OFF (not asleep as I expect). Turned it on to boot, did something else, came back...it was off. Repeated again. Hmmm. Booted it and immediately I could, ran the Disk Utility. Says "invalid extent entry" when I Verify Disk (Repair is grayed out, seems I'd have to boot from the OS Install DVD). - Machine is a G5 iMac 20" 1.8GHz 2GB RAM OS10.5.8 with a 1TB Western Digital drive which is 2.5 years old (and has a 3 year warranty-yay) - I calculated the size of the Music and Photo folders: much slower than usual. Everything is slower than usual, from boot-up onwards. (And by this I mean even slower than the slowness I've complained about elsewhere) - CPU shows abnormally high usage. With just this window open in Safari and no other apps, it's showing nearly 30%. Just before, it climbed up near 100% and seemed to get stuck. Periodically that happens lately. - Yes, I back up-and I'm doing another increment right now while the machine is running! A general question would be "once a drive loses a bit of info, is it starting to fail?" And more specifically, should I run out and replace this sucker right now?:$ Or ???? Thanks! [/QUOTE]
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