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- Powerbook G4 15" 167Ghz 80GB HD
okay guys...I'm back after a year. I "gave up" on my powerbook G4 15" 80GB hard drive running 10.4.x - dont remember the last # because its been a year since i last messed with it. but now i'm back, as i'm working off of my 12" powerbook G4 writing to you all, so any feedback is appreciated cause you all are very helpful at times.
What caused the 15" to crash was a security update that asked me to also update Java and iTunes. I left the room for 15 minutes, and let the PB run its course, and when i came back, i came back to a blank, black screen and hot powerbook, powered off. i powered it back on and it started to boot up fine until a folder and question mark popped up.
i hooked the 15" to the 12" via target Disk Mode and was able to "repair" over 60+ items in disk warrior and preview files which, to me, were useless because none of the things in the salvaged folder looked like anything I had on the drive. these were...i guess...OS files and not any of the music, .txt, or word documents i had created. these were files with the extension .dib and empty folders with a whole bunch of letters and numbers on it. i didnt know what they were for so i closed out of disk warrior.
Now after trial and error i finally got the 15" to boot up off the disk (The darn thing wouldnt boot past the apple logo and spinning gear. even had it on over night hoping it'd boot up but again, woke up to a apple and gear. SO FINALLY after reseting PRAM and NVRAM, waiting for three chimes, it booted off the install disk (before it wouldnt even do that, hence the apple logo and gear) so now i have the disk utility open and it's showing me, in this order, on the left pane,
74.5GB ST9808211A
disk0s3
4.2GB MATSHITADVD-...
Mac OSX Install Disc 1
Note the disk0s3 is grayed out.
I ran the verify/repair on the 74.5GB and got the following in red:
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
(A dropdown box said basically the same thing and i OKed that.)
I noticed on the bottom it says this information:
Disk Description: ST9808211A
Connection Bus: ATA
Connection Type: Internal
Connection ID: Device 0
Total Capacity: 74.5GB (80,026,361,856 Bytes)
Write Status: Read/Write
SMART Status: Verified
So I clicked on the grayed out "disk0s3" and ran verify disk and got
Invalid B-Tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
So i ran the REPAIR Disk button and waited, and got...
Invalid B-Tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
The information below this says:
Mount Point: Not mounted
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Owners Enabled: -
Number of Folders: -
Capacity: 74.4GB (79,892,106,240 Bytes)
Available: -
Used: -
Number of Files: -
IDK what to do. if i check the information tab for the disk0s3, it'll say the following:
Name: disk0s3
Type: Volume
Mount Point: Not Mounted
File System: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus: ATA
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
Device Tree: pci2/ata-6 @D/@0:3
Writable: Yes
Capacity 74.4GB (79,892,106,240 Bytes)
Owners Enabled: No
Can Turn Owners Off: yes
Can Be Formatted: Yes
Bootable: Yes
Supports Journaling: Yes
Journaled: No
SMART Status: Verified
Disk Number: 0
Partition Number: 3
It's telling me it's bootable, but i'm not sure how to fix the invalid B-Tree node. and the SMART status says verified. does anyone know how to fix this?? Plz help.
What caused the 15" to crash was a security update that asked me to also update Java and iTunes. I left the room for 15 minutes, and let the PB run its course, and when i came back, i came back to a blank, black screen and hot powerbook, powered off. i powered it back on and it started to boot up fine until a folder and question mark popped up.
i hooked the 15" to the 12" via target Disk Mode and was able to "repair" over 60+ items in disk warrior and preview files which, to me, were useless because none of the things in the salvaged folder looked like anything I had on the drive. these were...i guess...OS files and not any of the music, .txt, or word documents i had created. these were files with the extension .dib and empty folders with a whole bunch of letters and numbers on it. i didnt know what they were for so i closed out of disk warrior.
Now after trial and error i finally got the 15" to boot up off the disk (The darn thing wouldnt boot past the apple logo and spinning gear. even had it on over night hoping it'd boot up but again, woke up to a apple and gear. SO FINALLY after reseting PRAM and NVRAM, waiting for three chimes, it booted off the install disk (before it wouldnt even do that, hence the apple logo and gear) so now i have the disk utility open and it's showing me, in this order, on the left pane,
74.5GB ST9808211A
disk0s3
4.2GB MATSHITADVD-...
Mac OSX Install Disc 1
Note the disk0s3 is grayed out.
I ran the verify/repair on the 74.5GB and got the following in red:
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
(A dropdown box said basically the same thing and i OKed that.)
I noticed on the bottom it says this information:
Disk Description: ST9808211A
Connection Bus: ATA
Connection Type: Internal
Connection ID: Device 0
Total Capacity: 74.5GB (80,026,361,856 Bytes)
Write Status: Read/Write
SMART Status: Verified
So I clicked on the grayed out "disk0s3" and ran verify disk and got
Invalid B-Tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
So i ran the REPAIR Disk button and waited, and got...
Invalid B-Tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
The information below this says:
Mount Point: Not mounted
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Owners Enabled: -
Number of Folders: -
Capacity: 74.4GB (79,892,106,240 Bytes)
Available: -
Used: -
Number of Files: -
IDK what to do. if i check the information tab for the disk0s3, it'll say the following:
Name: disk0s3
Type: Volume
Mount Point: Not Mounted
File System: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Connection Bus: ATA
Partition Type: Apple_HFS
Device Tree: pci2/ata-6 @D/@0:3
Writable: Yes
Capacity 74.4GB (79,892,106,240 Bytes)
Owners Enabled: No
Can Turn Owners Off: yes
Can Be Formatted: Yes
Bootable: Yes
Supports Journaling: Yes
Journaled: No
SMART Status: Verified
Disk Number: 0
Partition Number: 3
It's telling me it's bootable, but i'm not sure how to fix the invalid B-Tree node. and the SMART status says verified. does anyone know how to fix this?? Plz help.