can anyone help?

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bienwold

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hi all,
having a major problem. my ibook crashed. it froze while i was on the net. so i restarted it, now it will only get to '...starting mac os x' the progress bar fills and then it freezes. my osx disk is damaged, so thats no good. i've no backup. can anyone help? maybe you could skype me? (brienworld)

thanks in advance.
 
Try running 'FSCK'

To run fsck, you first need to start up your Mac in single-user mode. Here's how:

1. Restart your Mac.

2. Immediately press and hold the Command and "S" keys.

You'll see a bunch of text begin scrolling on your screen. In a few more seconds, you'll see the Unix command line prompt (#).

You're now in single-user mode.

Now that you're at the # prompt, here's how to run fsck:

1. Type: "fsck -y" (that's fsck-space-minus-y) (without the quotes)
(If you're running Panther, v 10.3, then type this "fsck -f"

2. Press Return.

The fsck utility will blast some text onto your screen. If there's damage to your disk, you'll see a message that says:

***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****

If you see this message--and this is extremely important-- repeat running fsck. It is normal to have to run fsck more than once -- the first run's repairs often uncover additional problems..

When fsck finally reports that no problems were found, and the # prompt reappears:

3. Type: "reboot" to restart,

or type "exit" to start up without rebooting.

4. Press Return.

Your Mac should proceed to start up normally to the login window or the Finder.
 
no luck! and i'm irish :)

when i run fsck -f (it asks me to use this command instead of 'fsck -y')
anyway this is what happens:
________________________
**/dev/rdisk0s3
**root file system
**checking HFS Plus volume.
**checking Extents Overflow file.
**checking catalog file.
disk0s3: I/0 error.
Invalid node structure
(4, 5710)
**volume check failed.
________________________


so what do you think?

thanks a lot.
 
That may get the drive repaired, but no guarantees.

The next step would be reformatting.
 
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