Corrupt Disk ??.... Please Help

wicky

wicky

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i think something really BAD has happened!

After inserting a blank cd into the combo drive on my TiBook 667, my computer crashed. After rebooting, the external 80gb smartdisk VST firewire drive (which was connected at the time of the crash) failed to mount, and instead launched a dialogue box saying "the disk attempting to mount has failed to verify".

I launched the disk utility and tried to verify; when that failed i tried to repair the disk, but no joy!

The issue seems to be an "invalid B-tree node size", but i have no idea what this means.

I've rebooted with and without the drive connected. I've powered down the external HD. I've tried to launch the disk utility from the installation CD, but nothing seems to be able to get the disk to mount.

Can anybody help?

thanks in advance for any advice.
:confused:
 
I had the same problem burning a CD -> crash -> and my internal CD-RW burner is dead !!!

I'll be reinstalling, repairing with a friend's external CD drive this week.
Then I'll have to send back the computer to the warranty guys.

I'll keep you informed. Try a complete reinstall of your system first.
 
norton utilities can fix a b-tree node, i have an old version (4 i think) that i boot off of and then run once in a great while just to make sure that everything is still in shape. I have had norton come up before (under os 8 and 9 at the time) and tell me it has had to fix that before.

jeffo
 
Thanks for the response.

I've looked around on the web, and it seems that "disk warrior" is another app specifically designed to mend this problem. I'll let you know how it turns out.
 
Disk warrior is very good. You can run it from OS 9 if you need. A few months ago I replaced the damaged tree of my computer with a brand new functional one. All the data very recovered. But don't hurry up, it's a very long process.
 
cheers Luca

I was wondering... is it OS-X compatible? Everything that I've read seems to indicate that I'd have to boot my computer using the OS9 installer CD (or directly from the disk warrior CD?).

I'm confused by this, as the volume on the external drive is formatted for OS-x (HFS).

Was the disk that you repaired OS-X, or OS-9? How difficult/ easy/ straight forward is the process? I don't mind it being time consuming, but I'm a little bit frightened of losing the data.

thanks again
 
Actually I have 2 disks, one is the 4 gigs original one with OS 9 on it, the other a third party HD with 20 gigs and OS X on it. I booted from the OS 9 disk to repair OS X on the other, and everything went ok. The HD format doesn't seem to be an issue to Disk Warrior. Hope you'll recover your data.
 
great. that's exactly what i wanted to hear! now all i have to do is get a copy of disk warrior.

:)
 
Seems an emergency for you. But if you can wait, say one day, maybe I might help you. Still running all the time...
 
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