Greetings! Back at our club in the States (California) we had a monthly clinic for our members. When ever we replaced a hard drive that was shown to be faulty we would install the faulty HD in a HD enclosure and low and behold it mounted. This happened about 80 percent of the time. i do not know why but we were able to recover all the data. So do not discard your old HD. Buy a case and give it another chance.
Cheers, Joe On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au>wrote: > Thank Ronni & Roger, I used the Mac OS X Install Disc 1, and followed your > (Ronni's) instructions. In the show details it had the normal message at > the beginning in Black: Verify and Repair volume "Intel iMac HD", Checking > Journaled HFS Plus Volume, Checking Extents Overflow file, Checking Catalog > file. THEN in RED: Invalid record count, Volume Check failed, > Error:Filesystem verify or repair failed. > > Then a pop up window appeared: First Aid failed. Disk Utility stopped > repairing "Intel iMac HD" because the following error was encountered: > Filesystem verify or repair failed. > > I then tried to boot the iMac up in Target mode and run Diskwarrior on from > my Powerbook, but the iMac HD doesn't show up on the Powerbook desktop. Nor > will the iMac boot from the Diskwarrior CD. > > Roger. I can boot from the Install CD, choose my external HD as the Startup > disk, when I do this I get the following warning window > > "The disk Intel iMac HD was not reparable by this computer it is being > made available to you with limited functionality you must back up your data > and reformat the disk as soon as possible" > > Now fortunately I did a Superduper back up of the HD on Saturday and only > stand to lose about 50 files. But I know which ones they are and I for the > life of me can't seem to get access to the Intel iMac HD, that the warning > message has told me I am supposed to have. > > I did, once I booted from the External HD, try Disk Utility again to see if > working from another disk would work (as is normal with DiskWarrior). > Initially the Intel iMac HD didn't even show up, then after a while the > Intel iMac HD icon turned up with Mount point - *not mounted,* Format-Mac > OS Extended (Journaled), Capacity-931.2 GB (999,860,912,128 Bytes), all the > other fields where blank. It only gave me the option to "Verify Disk", I > did this and had the same answer as above. > > Then a short time later the "931.5 GB WDC WD10EADs-00L5B1 Media" icon > appeared above it and this again had "Verify Disk" as the only option, but > this time the entire date fields were populated. Disk Description- 931.5 > GB... (as above), Connection Bus-Serial ATA 2, Connection Type-Internal, > Total Capacity- 931.5 GB (1,000,204,886,016 Bytes), Write > Status-Read/Write, S.M.A.R.T. Status-Verified, Partition Map Scheme-GUID > Partition Table. I did not expect the SMART status to be verified. > > Anyway I ran the Verify Disk and this time the result was very different, > in Black this time- > Verifying volume on "Intel iMac HD" > Checking Journaled HFS Plus Volume > Checking Extents Overflow file > Checking Catalog file > Checking multi-linked files > Checking Catalog hierarchy > Checking Extended Attributes file > Checking volume bitmap > Checking volume information > Then in RED > Invalid volume file count > (It should be 706365 instead of 654780) BLACK > > invalid volume directory count RED > (it should be 170393 instead of 161532) BLACK > > Invalid volume free block count RED > (It should be 179888936 instead of 185089281) BLACK > > Volume Header needs minor repair RED > > The volume Intel iMac HD needs to be repaired. RED > Error:Filesystem verify or repair failed RED > > So it doesn't look good, but the second "repair" looked better. > > Where to next? > > Thanks > > Matt > > > On 10/12/2009, at 4:10 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > > Hi Matt, > > The system showing the grey screen with a no-entry sign, indicates the > computer cannot boot the system. > I hope it is not what I fear, the most probable cause is a dead hard drive. > > If you can boot from the DVD that came with your iMac (as Roger has > suggested) or the install DVD of your operating system, > by restarting the computer while holding the C key. > > When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility > from the Installer menu. > Click the First Aid tab. > Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display > the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions. > Select your Mac OS X volume. > Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk. (If it can, > otherwise you will receive a message that the Drive cannot be repaired). > > Let us know what the message is your receive please. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo > 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB > OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 10/12/2009, at 3:08 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: > > > Hi Matt > > > Do you have an external HD or the DVD that came with the iMac, if so try > starting from them and let us know what happens. > > > Roger > > > On 10/12/2009, at 3:03 PM, Matt Falvey wrote: > > > > Hi I have just tried to start my intel iMac and it has stopped at a grey > screen with a no-entry sign across the centre and nothing else happens i.e > no noise or any signs of booting up. After a while the sign disappears the > screens becomes a little lighter in colour and it just sits like that. I > had been using it all morning with out any problems, had not installed > anything on it nor deleted any applications. > > > Any ideas as to what may be wrong? > > > Matt Falvey > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - > <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au<wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
