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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1369383" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day and welcome to the forums.</p><p></p><p>How much free space does the hard drive have on it? To work at all efficiently a drive needs 15% of its capacity as free space. Hence if you have 100GB hard drive AFTER FORMATTING, expect problems when you get over 85GB.</p><p></p><p>You do have problems buying a MB with a busted optical drive. Yes your problems have grown bigger. We were going to use the Snow Leopard install disc to boot from and run Repair Disk, as the hard drive may well be failing. The Disk Utility on your external would do the trick but of course you have to be able to boot from that. This is possible if the hard drive was cloned using SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner, but not if you use Time Machine.</p><p></p><p>As a last resort you might like to run fsck in Single User Mode to see if this helps.</p><p></p><p>Boot and hold down Command S until a black screen appears.</p><p></p><p>At the prompt type /sbin/fsck -fy precisely as it appears - note the space after k.</p><p></p><p>You can repeat this until the repairs are hopefully completed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1369383, member: 42497"] G'day and welcome to the forums. How much free space does the hard drive have on it? To work at all efficiently a drive needs 15% of its capacity as free space. Hence if you have 100GB hard drive AFTER FORMATTING, expect problems when you get over 85GB. You do have problems buying a MB with a busted optical drive. Yes your problems have grown bigger. We were going to use the Snow Leopard install disc to boot from and run Repair Disk, as the hard drive may well be failing. The Disk Utility on your external would do the trick but of course you have to be able to boot from that. This is possible if the hard drive was cloned using SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner, but not if you use Time Machine. As a last resort you might like to run fsck in Single User Mode to see if this helps. Boot and hold down Command S until a black screen appears. At the prompt type /sbin/fsck -fy precisely as it appears - note the space after k. You can repeat this until the repairs are hopefully completed. [/QUOTE]
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