Well, Roger & Ronni things are getting stranger. I thought in light
of last nights improvements in the response, that before I took it up
to Macworx, I would run Disk Utility on it one more time.
I booted from the External HD and the 931.5 GB WDC etc Disk icon
appeared with only Verify Disk as an option, then suddenly Repair Disk
appeared so I clicked it and it ran through the entire process in
about a minute and everything passed.
Then the Intel iMac HD icon appeared with both options, I chose Repair
Disk, it ran through the process and again everything passed!
So I have restarted from the Intel iMac HD and have backed everything
up. I have managed to get the Intel iMac HD to show up on Target mode
on the PowerBook and have run DiskWarrior to Rebuild the Directory.
The report came back with a few errors and stated "All file and folder
data was easily located." One of the error items that referred to
Volumes was
Disk: "Intel iMac HD"
Repaired Custom Icon Flag
Repaired the Available Disk Space of the Volume Information
Location: "Desktop"
Volumes is where I had most of the error messages when I had ran
Verify Disk on the 931.5 GB WDC etc. Yesterday (details below).
I installed the new Directory. I then tried to do a Repair Disk
Permissions & Check All Files & Folders and it went further than
before but stuck on the section; Repairing Permissions - Examining
Known Files & Folders, I let it go for a further 30 Mins or so and
stopped it. I then went and deleted some of the "xx2...@5b*uy" folders
that contain nothing that the Rebuild directory had highlighted and
have just started it again, It has finally finished with the message:DiskWarrior
scanned the disk named "Intel iMac HD" checking all files and
folders for damage and potential
compatibility problems.
• Permissions were verified and any necessary repairs were made.
• 11,393 files had property list data checked.
• 42,567 files had resource data checked.
• The maximum folder depth on this disk is 25. This does not exceed
the maximum recommended depth.
• The system symbolic link files were checked and no problems were
found.
• 1 file had property list data that was found to be damaged.
• 2 files had resource data that was found to be damaged.
The Repair Disk Permissions & Check All Files & Folders seems to work
too, now.
I have just done another Rebuild Directory, in case I may have stuffed
anything up dumping the "xx2...@5b*uy" folders and Rebuilt it before
Repairing it, and it again was successful this time with no errors.
Should I do another backup up now that I have a new directory
presuming that everything is now okay with the files?
On the matter of the HD, has it failed, is it failing, did it just not
mount, is it okay or should I still take it to Macworx?
The iMac is 10 months old, so still under original warrantee and I do
also have the Applecare. I have set Diskwarrior to automatically check
every hour and email me if it encounters a problem, but the thing is
even if it is working okay now I wont get my confidence in it back for
quite some time.
Matt
On 11/12/2009, at 7:22 AM, Roger Kortas wrote:
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
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