Boot drive problems

[Chris Murphy]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:09 AM, R.L. Grigg wrote:

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> On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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>> I'm a firm believer in DiskWarrior, by the guy who created HSF.  
>> I'd give that a shot. It should at least be able to mount a read  
>> only image of the volume so you can pull data off of it. If that  
>> doesn't work, try Data Rescue II
>>
>> It's possible there's a media defect where a crucial portion of  
>> the directory is located and thus can't be repaired. If you  
>> repartition and then erase with zeros, in theory the drive should  
>> find bad blocks and remove them from use.
>>
>
> I forgot we had the Intel version of DiskWarrior! I ran it twice.  
> The first time it found lots of stuff but still wouldn't boot, so I  
> ran it again and it found nothing and still doesn't boot OSX, just  
> XP. I guess it must be some bad physical problem with the drive.  
> Ill look into Data Rescue II.

It should still have the feature available where you can preview the  
drive. It will mount the drive on the desktop as a read only volume.  
Then you can extract stuff. If repartition/erasure isn't helping this  
drive, I wouldn't trust it. Call in the warranty or buy a new drive.


Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
New York, NY
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