

It also includes Gatekeeper, a new security feature that helps you keep your Mac safe from malicious software by giving you more control over what apps are installed on your Mac. The 10.7.5 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. Still, El Capitan check of the Int-HD in its details states the EFI partition is "fine.Mac OS X version 10.7 Lion VPAT (9-2011) of 11 The following Voluntary Product Accessibility information refers to the Mac OS X version 10.7 “Lion” operating system.For more information on accessibility features in Mac OS X and to find out about available applications and peripheral devices. BUT Disk Utility after Yosemite does not allow you to "see" and individually check such partitions without Terminal and at least an arm and a leg-of an orphan of course, I mean, Apple Tech is not unreasonable. Loaded Lion, then updated to El Capitan-which I can at least say is no longer as odious as it was now that updates to software and all of that are available.īooted to The Clone- External HD of Doom-ran its Disk Utility and no problem. THIS time it recognized the error and fixed it. At that stage, the Lion Recovery Disk Utility could NOT fix that partition.

So I rebooted with my Lion Recovery which I had done before all of that. then properly formated it for Sane People. This will not wipe out all of your sectors on a HD. Since I have numerable clones, and a few spare parts from the nearby orphanage, I simply "wiped" the drive. My Big Question was always "should I care?" This should either work, help you break the speed of light, destroy everything, or IA! IA! CTHULHU FTAGEN! No indication as to why this is a problem. Heart of a small, Cute Orphan with a Song in Said Heart and a Head Full of Dreams!- The later of which you do not need. A number of steps involving Terminal- which more than one commentator noted, "oh, you made a typographical error" while the original reply noted "you can utterly destroy your data."ĥ. A separate OS Boot-Up USB "stick" disk.ģ. One guy just deleted it and noticed nothing which caused techheads to panic without naming a reason. Then, fine, I have my clones, I will clone more frequently, and start threads about "should I get that 1TB SSD rather than the now very inexpensive hybrid?" While every thing seems to be find apparently the EFI partition was not fixed. I suppose I could wipe the Int-HD and just rebuild everything from my clone, but if I do not have to do that, I would prefer not to waste the time doing it.įor the hell of it I decided to try El Capitan as in my signature now. Snooping around the Interwebz I find this may be the EFI partition and not a lot of advice about it. I one of my clones attached at you can see its disk2s1 which does check out fine.

īefore this time, whenever I felt the need to check things, the disk0s1 is grey and checks out. I then use DiskWarrior which gives the same error when I try to "SMART" test the drive. Out of the blue I receive an error from my Disk Warrior "missing resource."īoot to a clone to check things out I inspect the drive/volume first TechTool Pro 8b: no problem with HD or the volume.

I back up everything on two clones so all is safe. The Int-HD is a Seagate 1TB SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive) SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache if that helps.
