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Can you write other stuff onto the drive?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:49:05 PM EST
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I've just tried that and yes I can write other stuff on and call up the files.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 12:52:08 PM EST
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Big files?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 03:01:27 PM EST
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Just tried backing up again and it seemed to be working for an hour or so and then came up with the failed message again.  

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 02:42:20 PM EST
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Is there a sector by sector disk checker on Macs?


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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 02:57:16 PM EST
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Run disk utility on it and do a verify, but I'd guess the disk is bad.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 03:02:24 PM EST
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I've done that and it finds no problems with the disk. I'll finish backing up my working files tomorrow and then see if disk utility turns anything up for the mac itself.

The issue backing up coincided with firefox corrupting which froze the mac up for ages each time I tried to run it but that has been deleted and reinstalled. I don't know if that was just a coincidence.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Wed Sep 1st, 2010 at 05:33:34 PM EST
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