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Cheers, Joe On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Matt Falvey <mmfal...@bigpond.net.au>wrote: > Joe, it looks like you may well be correct, as it seem to have repaired > itself somehow. But I will get it replaced and keep will keep the old, a > good piece of advise. > > Thanks > > Matt > > On 11/12/2009, at 5:42 AM, Joe Mastrella wrote: > > 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> > -- 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>
