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newbie: stuck on desktop screen after booting
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<blockquote data-quote="xj6jaguar1985" data-source="post: 767756" data-attributes="member: 60410"><p>Your hard drive directory is damaged beyond Disk Utility's limited repair capabilities (which are, as far as I know, the same as those of fsck). You can either reformat the drive and reinstall everything, which sounds like a non-option for you right now, or buy DiskWarrior and rebuild the drive's directory with it, or buy a new hard drive and set the old one aside to be repaired later. But if you'd also have to buy an OS to install on a new drive, DiskWarrior would be less expensive than a drive plus an OS.</p><p></p><p>It's possible that the drive's directory is scrambled because the drive is failing, and in that case it will soon scramble itself again even if you fix it now. Start it up from your Apple Hardware Test disc and run the extended test to make sure you don't have a RAM or hard drive hardware problem. If that all passes OK, start up again from your original OS installer disc and see what Disk Utility reports for the drive's SMART status. Report back with results</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xj6jaguar1985, post: 767756, member: 60410"] Your hard drive directory is damaged beyond Disk Utility's limited repair capabilities (which are, as far as I know, the same as those of fsck). You can either reformat the drive and reinstall everything, which sounds like a non-option for you right now, or buy DiskWarrior and rebuild the drive's directory with it, or buy a new hard drive and set the old one aside to be repaired later. But if you'd also have to buy an OS to install on a new drive, DiskWarrior would be less expensive than a drive plus an OS. It's possible that the drive's directory is scrambled because the drive is failing, and in that case it will soon scramble itself again even if you fix it now. Start it up from your Apple Hardware Test disc and run the extended test to make sure you don't have a RAM or hard drive hardware problem. If that all passes OK, start up again from your original OS installer disc and see what Disk Utility reports for the drive's SMART status. Report back with results [/QUOTE]
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