Le 04-09-20, à 1:06 pm, Matthew Faulds a écrit : > Eventually I noticed that disk utility reported the SMART status as > "failing". Unfortunately I hadn't backed up but I immediately got a > firwire disk and managed to salvage my data. Ah! I had the same problem, I never related it to my external HD SMART crashing, but you confirm the relation between the symptoms and the cause! However's affected better do backups *now*! Alex