so lets say that over the past week or two i have randomly lost a track or two from itunes that i KNOW for certain i did not manually delete and that still show up in itunes, just not in the file structure, or are otherwise corrupted within the file structure

is this possibly an indication of a coming onset of hardware/drive failure?

any experience with this previously from anyone else?

3/10/2008 6:17:17 PM

Yes, it is. Seriously consider a new hard drive.

I wouldn't believe this were true had I not seen it before with my own eyes. In fact I told the person they were nuts and there's no way their files were just dissapearing ... but sure enough.

After getting what I could off the HDD I proceeded to attempt a sector-by-sector recovery to figure out what was going on. Needless to say, the HDD reported tens-of-thousands of sectors as bad and irrecoverable while the rest of the HDD worked fine as long as those sectors were avoided.

3/10/2008 6:55:48 PM

check the SMART log

3/10/2008 8:57:39 PM

^ beat me to it

also check the error log

3/10/2008 9:01:01 PM

damn

oh well, it was getting full anyway (still had 16GB of room, but it was a solid 7200rpm drive for two years straight)

3/11/2008 12:10:28 PM