Life is sucking right now. I am bogged down in trying to get most of my important files off the root drive of my Mac Pro.

It all started late last week when I started to notice beach balls every so often. This week it just got worse to the point of un-usability. I ran the Apple Hardware Tools on Wednesday and I ended up getting this error:

Alert! Apple Hardware Test has detected an error. 4HDDD/11/40000000: SATA(0,0)

Doing a quick web search I discovered this at the Apple forums.

Luckily my company really helped me out and by yesterday (Thursday) I had a new drive ordered from New Egg. UPS should be bringing the new drive by Monday. Now it is just a matter of snooping every nook and cranny of my file system to make sure I can get everything off to an external drive. What makes it long and drawn out is that the beach balls are getting closer and closer together. And I can't copy more than about 50 MBs without the progress bar stalling. I am also getting frequent "Can not read or write from this file: -file.ext-". Fortunately none of the files it chokes on so far is an important file.