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down1nit
Jan 10, 2004

outlive your enemies
OK then, assuming you can HEAR or FEEL it spin up and it still works, make sure you have a copy of everything on this drive. This drive is probably OK but acting odd. Any time a drive is acting odd, you should make sure it has a complete separate backup of itself, just in case this drive decides to die.

If you are ONLY storing the old computer's backup, AND you don't need anything on this particular 4tb drive, feel free to just reformat it. There are odd partition errors that happen with HFS+ filesystems that I've seldom fixed, and they usually happen with time machine drives.

If you NEED STUFF ON THIS DRIVE, make sure you have a copy, and then feel free to run first aid on on both the volume and the partition in disk utility. It may fix it! Macs are great sometimes!

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