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Rainwater
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On the advice of some article I read on tuning a Mac, I ran a disk check. Although the computer (Powerbook G4) seemed to be running fine, disk errors were noted and it said to repair the disk.
I ran the disk repair utility from my OS X disk. It reported 'keys out of order' then eventually 'underlying process failed on exit' or something similar. Then the computer would not reboot - could not find my boot drive I guess. My Mac HD does not show up when I try to select a boot drive. I ran the repair disk utility a couple of times (as recommended) and even ran the /sbin/fsck -fy stuff a few times. Still get error messages and the computer is still dead.
I've had problems with OS's before, but I've never had one commit suicide while trying to repair some sort of error.
From what I read, my next step is to purchase and try Disk Warrior - for ~$100 with no guarantee of success. Is this correct or or there other repair attempts I should try - like maybe reinstalling the OS?? Obviously I would like to preserve the data on the machine.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
- Rainwater
I ran the disk repair utility from my OS X disk. It reported 'keys out of order' then eventually 'underlying process failed on exit' or something similar. Then the computer would not reboot - could not find my boot drive I guess. My Mac HD does not show up when I try to select a boot drive. I ran the repair disk utility a couple of times (as recommended) and even ran the /sbin/fsck -fy stuff a few times. Still get error messages and the computer is still dead.
I've had problems with OS's before, but I've never had one commit suicide while trying to repair some sort of error.
From what I read, my next step is to purchase and try Disk Warrior - for ~$100 with no guarantee of success. Is this correct or or there other repair attempts I should try - like maybe reinstalling the OS?? Obviously I would like to preserve the data on the machine.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
- Rainwater