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<blockquote data-quote="macguy5150" data-source="post: 1000066" data-attributes="member: 144087">I found this link elsewhere in your forums, and it worked for me.<a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070204093925888" target="_blank">A possible fix for invalid sibling links on a hard drive - Mac OS X Hints</a>Here is the discussion I found it in:<a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/108780-my-hd-dead.html" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/108780-my-hd-dead.html</a>My Disk Utility would not repair the internal HD in a MacBook Pro, and it wouldn't mount on another computer when it was in Target Disk mode either. I was getting the I/O and Exited on Signal 8 errors and thought I was doomed. I had to boot from a Leopard disk, and run the commands in Terminal.&nbsp; It was important that I unmount the internal HD, and run the fsck_hfs command a couple times for it to work, and it took awhile.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="macguy5150, post: 1000066, member: 144087"] I found this link elsewhere in your forums, and it worked for me. [url=http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070204093925888]A possible fix for invalid sibling links on a hard drive - Mac OS X Hints[/url] Here is the discussion I found it in: [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/108780-my-hd-dead.html[/url] My Disk Utility would not repair the internal HD in a MacBook Pro, and it wouldn't mount on another computer when it was in Target Disk mode either. I was getting the I/O and Exited on Signal 8 errors and thought I was doomed. I had to boot from a Leopard disk, and run the commands in Terminal. It was important that I unmount the internal HD, and run the fsck_hfs command a couple times for it to work, and it took awhile. [/QUOTE]

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