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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Free Software to Display How Your Mac Hard Drive is Feeling

In a previous blog, I talked about how to determine if your Apple hard drive was failing.
Click here to read previous blog:
http://hthcatlanta.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-tell-if-your-apple-laptop-disk.html

SmartReporter will read your S.M.A.R.T. status every 15 minutes and alert you to a hard drive that is starting to fail. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. Here is the link to the software:
http://download.cnet.com/SMARTReporter/3000-2086_4-49263.html

This alert may give you enough warning to back up your system one last time before your start the process of replacing your hard drive and re-loading your software.