[OT] bad disk & MacOS reinstall

[Richard L. Hamilton]

The port smartmontools includes the command line tool. The port gsmartcontrol provides a GUI on top of that, if you want (I've never tried the latter).

It won't work on USB drives without a kernel driver (not available in MacPorts).

https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support <https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx/usb-drive-support> may have links and instructions (that site is for a paid product but the kernel driver is open source). I haven't tried that, and in particular don't have High Sierra to try it on.


> On May 17, 2024, at 18:57, Riccardo Mottola via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Horst Simon wrote:
>> I had todo a re-install on my 2010 MacBook Pro with High Sierra from scratch, my copy of High sierra I had was corrupted and caused my all kind of grief. I finally downloaded a new copy on my iMac using the command line
> Got a new disk.
> 
> Using recovery partition I tried to dump/restore the partiton... but half during the process I got a disk error and the process aborted. Proof that it is gone.
> 
> at the end, I changed hard disk and had to reinstall. Now salvaging data.
> I will reinstall MacPorts from scratch. Safer... and also a "test" like being a new user.
> 
> I still am a bit disappointed by SMART.
> 
> Does Macports have a tool to get SMART details? On linux  there is one  quite comprehensive!
> 
> Riccardo
> 

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