Hi Matt Yes your HD has failed :( do you have Applecare on it still?
You will need a new HD and as Joe said they maybe a chance to recover some data if you but the drive in an external case. But of course the most important thing is to get a new HD :) If we can help any more please ask. Roger On 11/12/2009, at 2:27 AM, Matt Falvey 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> >> > > > > > -- 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>
