Mac hardware
Internal drive keeps throwing errors
Q I have an old 2010-ish iMac which I mainly use for Zoom meetings. It has recently started crashing a lot, and on investigation Disk Utility reports errors it can’t repair. Neither can it complete running Diagnostics without throwing an error. How can I reformat its hard disk?
by JILL [NO SURNAME PROVIDED]
A Your Mac’s internal hard disk is sick. This isn’t surprising, as it’s around ten years old now, and most hard disks last no more than five years, so it has done++R keys during startup, or from a bootable external disk.
