Hard Drive Problems on the iMac It’s most certainly a lesson for me and it can also be a lesson for you. Drives do fail from time to time and you should always have a backup plan to avoid Mac hard drive problems. I do have a backup plan, but I didn’t follow it as diligently as I should have done. I had a reminder to tell me every Monday to do a backup of my hard drives using the application SuperDuper. Three months went by without me actually doing those Super Duper backups. I thought that all my stuff was protected anyway by using Time Machine and also by saving my stuff to either iCloud drive or to Dropbox. Unfortunately, there was a gap in between these blocks of backup protection. I have been running my Mac from a Thunderbolt drive connected externally to my iMac. It is a solid-state drive SSD and I’ve been using it to have a fast boot and faster working Mac. With it only being a drive of 480 GB capacity I had to put some of my data onto the spinning drive which was still sitting i
