I suffered a problem with my IMac hard drive.
My main volume encountered the "Invalid Sibling Link Error."
Fortunately I was able to access the drive via terminal and copy my most essential files off and safely store them away.
I purchased an external drive and installed MacOS X on it, and I then downloaded DiskWarrior.
I installed DiskWarrior, and I ran the repair program on the effected volume and disk warrior said that the restoration was successful.
However when I rebooted, the computer can not detect the actual physical disk anymore.
I restarted a couple times and the disk reappeared (in the Mac OS X installation utility). But I haven't been able to repeat this.
I do not hear any clicking sounds that would indicate a physical device failure.
At the moment I really hope that I can get this drive online (if not for restoring my previous OS, but for retrieving the rest of my documents)
Anyone have any suggestions?
I've learned my lessen though, now that I have an external drive, if I get my main drive back online I will use Time Machine religiously from now on...
My main volume encountered the "Invalid Sibling Link Error."
Fortunately I was able to access the drive via terminal and copy my most essential files off and safely store them away.
I purchased an external drive and installed MacOS X on it, and I then downloaded DiskWarrior.
I installed DiskWarrior, and I ran the repair program on the effected volume and disk warrior said that the restoration was successful.
However when I rebooted, the computer can not detect the actual physical disk anymore.
I restarted a couple times and the disk reappeared (in the Mac OS X installation utility). But I haven't been able to repeat this.
I do not hear any clicking sounds that would indicate a physical device failure.
At the moment I really hope that I can get this drive online (if not for restoring my previous OS, but for retrieving the rest of my documents)
Anyone have any suggestions?
I've learned my lessen though, now that I have an external drive, if I get my main drive back online I will use Time Machine religiously from now on...