On Dec 4, 2005, at 21:25, AB wrote:
My 200GB backup firewire drive... which contains tons of
music,digital camera photos, my system BU, many third party app
installers and Apple updates,zillions of downloads, VPC 7 and
current updated version of Windows XP, just to name a few things...
appears to be royally screwed up.
My wife was having a problem finding some things on her iMac and I
hooked my firewire drive to transfer some items. Her iMac had
Classic mode open (a guy at her office did a Tiger upgrade/install
from 10.2.8 which apparently leaves Classic mode intact)because she
had just mistakenly re-installed Quicken 98 instead of the Quicken
2005 we had. (Don't ask! I don't know either).
Her system was taking forever to access my firewire drive
partitions, a lot of spinning beachball action going on, eventually
stopping. I finally tried to eject it by dragging to the trash and
the spinning beachball continued non-stop. Tried force quit with no
luck and eventually hit the power button. After a long wait the
iMac appeared to shut down and I pulled the firewire cable and
powered down the drive. I reconnected to my iBook 10.4.3 and
powered the firewire drive back up to get the message - "Drive not
readable." Taking deep breaths I opened Disk Utility to see the
firewire drive partitions showed up now labelled Disk 1s09, 1s10,
1s11, 1s12 (huh?). I clicked 'Verify Disk' and it said "Invalid B
tree node size," "The Volume needs to be repaired." But I also got
a red system message, "The Underlying Task Reported Failure On
Exit." Not feeling so good I tried 'Repair Disk' and got the same
system message and Disk Utility reported:
Invalid B Tree Node Size
Volume Check Failed, 4 HFS+ volumes checked
4 Volumes Could Not Be Repaired Because Of An Error
Should I kiss years of personal archives and other stuff good-
bye? ... or does anyone think there's hope for me to resurrect this
drive? I don't own Disk Warrior for Tiger. Will that maybe save my
@ss? I'm still trying to remain positive, given the other
alternative of freaking out. Other than that it's been a good day
beginning in nice warm Florida, then coming back to cold snowy
Ohio, and attempting to help my wife with her Mac...Grrr.
AB
This definitely sounds like a job for Disk Warrior. Or maybe Drive
Genius - I think it is priced nice at OWC.
Daevad
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