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I just ran a scan on a friend's iMac using Scannerz and it found tons of problems on the hdd, but the SSD looks clean. A few years ago some of the iMacs had an odd temp sensor configuration. It could be circumvented by getting a part from OWC or running a fan control program. If memory serves...

A few things stand out. First is the possibility of a bad drive. The Scannerz guys have info on using stuff like Activity Monitor and bad hard drive info in the how to section of their site. The link to get you in is http://scsc-online.com and the link for Scannerz is...

From the man page: In Tiger, and possibly Panther as well, asr used to support file copy. For example, suppose you have your drive named "MacHD" and it's 100GB with 60 GB free space, thus the OS and all files are using 40GB, and you want to clone it to MacHD-Clone, which we'll say is an 80GB...

Actually, I've found this post quite informative. I used to use "dd" a loooooong time ago because back in the days of simple Unix, that's about all that was available for cloning, or possibly cpio (does anyone remember that??) if used properly. Upon realizing that "asr" has been effectively...

I didn't mean to imply I saw it in that article, but rather on that site. Here's a link: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?p=717506&posted=1#post717506 As you can see, on that site, DeltaMac isn't just a member, he's the "League Commissioner." ;-) I was just curious...not a...

Interestingly, DeltaMac, I came across that very link to the dd trick prior to writing this post. Interestingly also, is the fact that there's a guy on there with a name that's, well, should I say identical to yours? Is that you? Just curious. Most people don't even have a clue what dd is.

I use a product for drive testing named Scannerz with FSE. Today I went to their site to download a troubleshooting doc, and I noticed they added a new how-to section to their site. I took a look and they have an article on there about cloning a hard drive using Disk Utility under Mountain Lion...

Clearly I need to quit kidding myself and recognize the fact that I need glasses! It's interesting that someone on a MacWorld blog post responded to the blog using the same link (he got the numbers right, though!) I personally transferred ML to a FireWire backup drive. There were too many...

If I were you I would stick with Snow Leopard, or if you want something that's at least "Mountain Lion Like" go to Lion. I'd avoid Mountain Lion at all costs. Why? Well, I've recently started using a product called Scannerz which is a drive testing program (you can get info at...

DeltaMac's idea is good and easy. If you're at all versatile taking these things apart, you could open the unit up and pull out the video cable that runs out of the video section of the logic board to the laptops display. That will force the video out through the external video connector...

Scannerz is apparently an excellent tool. I'm not familiar with it myself but I've seen it mentioned on other sites for it's ability to catch problems other tools apparently miss. Which brings me to my next point about SSDs: A third party tool like Scannerz should not be able to detect problems...

Replacing a drive in a MacBook is a piece of cake, no more difficult that updating/replacing the RAM. People with systems more difficult to service may very well, and very sensibly, attempt to repair the drive using some of the Scannerz tactics. There's nothing special about them. Zeroing a...

Sorry about that. I thought that post was from someone throwing out an opinion. I would have thought that repair would have been expensive (here in the U.S. it would be)

That type of problem could be caused by a lot of things - almost all of them not good and serious (think logic board.) I would do the following: 1. Remove the battery from the unit and see if it will start from the AC only. 2. Install the battery and remove the external supply and see if it...

An update and a re-installation are two different things. An application on a Mac consists of the binary itself and the resource files which include .nib/.xib files. I would think it's entirely possible an update may not install the binary but may update other stuff instead, which would leave...