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Macintosh HD missing after failed catalog btree rebuilding
There is an I/O error in the hard disk in my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion and as I start it up, a progress bar fills up and then it shuts down on its own. I attempted to recover the files in ...
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What are next steps when fsck reports “could not be repaired after 3 attempts”?
My Mac Book Pro 13.-" doesn´t get past the grey booting screen with the apple and the spinning wheel (The loading bar appears but when it´s done nothing happens)
I have 220 GB in one single ...
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Fixing up a HFS+ filesystem enough to rescue some files
I have a HFS+ formatted drive that just died on me. I have a back up but it's a about a week old. Unfortunately, I have a few files that I've changed and added since then that I would like to rescue ...
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OS X: fsck_hfs unable to fix volume directory count
I'm running fsck_hfs on a very large volume. Unfortunately, there's an issue it appears to be unable to fix -- it reports it, loops back to start with Rechecking..., and reports it again, ad ...
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Mountain Lion Installer detects hard drive damage
I downloaded and ran the Mountain Lion Installer today for my mid-2007 iMac. After rebooting and preparing to install, I receive an error message that the hard disk was damaged and the installer could ...
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Disk Utility says disk is corrupt after running fsck -fy
Disk utility reports that the disk needs to be repaired.
I can't find the original boot disk, so I booted to single user mode and ran:
fsck -fy
This reported that it fixed a problem, and that the ...
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Repair disk from single user mode (fsck fails)
Earlier today my 2009 iMac emitted I/O errors trying to copy files. So I ran disk utility, verify disk to see if anything was amiss. It was. But as it's my startup disk I couldn't repair it, so I ...
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How to “scan disk” or “repair disk” by booting up in single user mode and scan disk?
I think when we are using the Mac, we can't choose "Repair Disk" in Disk Utilty to repair the current hard drive, as the drive is being used.
If "Verify Disk" is used, it only takes about 3 to 5 ...
