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Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem?
#6704112 - 03/23/07 07:14 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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My harddrive has become unmounted and I'm unable to do most things, and when trying to repair these things earlier i get ah "keys out of order" error. I need help. !
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: snoot]
#6704831 - 03/23/07 11:07 PM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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hmmm.
can you give a little more info.
os version, perhaps what type of machine, hardware information...kinda hard to tell just by what you said.
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: snoot]
#6705297 - 03/24/07 02:27 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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A little info would go a long ways... "My car won't start? Why?"
Boot from optical, run disk utility from utilities (or tools) menu, repair volume.
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: Seuss]
#6705792 - 03/24/07 09:01 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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well at first i just got my startup screen and the balloon just spun and spun and finally it would shut down. I then cleared pram and still nothing, then booted from the cd, and from there did some diagnostics using disk utility that comes on the cd. From there it wouldn't varify and said it needs repairs. I did repairs and it gets about 80% of the way through and it stops saying theres an error and cannot procede. The error being that "the keys are out of order" not a direct qoute, also I get this error while it's creating the b-tree file.
Now I've been looking around more at this, and apparently Macintosh HD is unmounted. Somehow it has become unmounted, so I'm unable to try and even boot from it or even install os x on it.
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: snoot]
#6705796 - 03/24/07 09:02 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Its on a mac mini, using osx10.4.8 i believe it might have 10.4.9.
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: snoot]
#6708522 - 03/25/07 03:06 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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> I did repairs and it gets about 80% of the way through and it stops saying theres an error and cannot procede
This isn't good. You win a free reinstall. Until the disk is clean, it won't mount, and the disk is corrupt beyond fixing. You can still probably recover most of your data, via target/firewire, or from single user mode, but you will have to reformat the disk to fully recover.
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: Seuss]
#6708975 - 03/25/07 09:00 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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thanks Seuss I've come to that conclusion as well, how can I go about recovering anything?
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: snoot]
#6712026 - 03/26/07 04:30 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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Boot your computer holding down the T button and see if the firewire symbol comes up on the screen. If it does, your computer is acting as a big firewire enabled hard drive. Plug it into another computer, via firewire, and your disk will show up on the other computers desktop. Drag & drop what you want to save...
Sometimes, if the disk is super corrupt, it won't go into target mode when you boot with the T button held. In this case, you have to boot into single user mode (apple-S when booting) and run a few processes by hand to start up the low level system services. At that point, you can mount the disk a copy off the data. Google for more help on this, if you need it. I have only done it a few times and don't remember all the steps.
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Re: Any os x nuts wanna help me with a hd problem? [Re: Seuss]
#6712148 - 03/26/07 07:46 AM (17 years, 1 month ago) |
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oh wow thats ez thanks alot. just too let you know i reformated my drive, without rewriting over it. But i got os x back installed, which is a relief cause i thought i was going to need a new drive.
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