Last night my iBook started to play up (sluggish, froze with rainbow spinning wheel).
I was using photoshop and was forced to restart, losing my work. After the second time this happened, the machine would not progress beyond in the grey screen with the apple and the rotating cursor on start-up.
I booted with the my OS X install disc and checked the HDD with disc utility (verify disc) - the partition label is grey'd out.
These are the errors given:
Invalid Volume Header
Invalid node type
The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
And, of course,
Volume needs repair.
The Mount point is 'not mounted' and owner
s, number of folders, available, used and number of files all have a '-'.
So i ran the repair and get the following errors
Invalid Volume Header
Invalid node type
Volume check failed
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit.
and it could not be repaired because of an error.
I found two other threads that discuss similar (
1,
2), though do not really address my questions:
- Is the HDD salvageable via an erase and re-partition?
- Assuming i can boot in Target disk mode, would TechTools Pro be able to do anything?*
- Any other options to recover the latest files (i.e. those not back-up yet)?
- Is the failure on exit a big problem that could affect all of these?
Seems to be my luck of late, following the HDD failing in my PB a week ago.
thx
c
* i ask as i do not have a f/w cable on hand
