fsck says "Invalid Node Structure"

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gyounis

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Last night I decided to add an old HD to my G3 with OSX 10.2.5 and at some point in the process I ended up with an endless spinning beachball on startup [the ball came up after the introductory OS X startup screens; right when you'd expect things to be complete.] I ran fsck -y in single user mode and it would always terminate after saying "invalid node structure." I followed all of apple's suggestions for startup problems on the website. I was able to boot in OS 9 ( off the 2nd drive) okay and the HD in question mounted, but I was hesitant to run any repair programs from OS 9 onto my OS 10 drive, so I did not do so.
I ran Drive 10 instead which also found this problem and some kind of 'unusual' block damage on my hard drive. I instructed the program to repair the drive.

Now the drive does not mount at all. I'm not sure what the original problem was, nor why drive 10 has rendered my drive un-mountable, and I dont know what to do now. I dont have diskwarrior but I know that's an option.

does anyone have any suggestions?
 
Did you wipe the drive then install on it? If there are block problems then you may have a damaged disk, which will cause all kinds of problems. The drive that came with my G4 had some problems that nothing could fix when I was attempting to move to X, so I got rid of it and installed 2 Maxtors, and all has been smooth since. I use Norton Systemworks 2 on all my drives and partitions, even the X partition. When you did a defective media check, what did that find?
 
No! I didn't wipe it - in fact it had accessible osX folders etc when I was able to see it in OS 9. I don't use norton systemworks [maybe I should have!!] but in drive 10 when it did the media check it found damaged blocks that it termed "very unusual" or something of that ilk. It then saved the report to disk, and I now cannot access the disk of course.


For the sake of clarification, the damaged drive is the native drive that was running os X. THe drive other drive [that i was installing] i did wipe clean before starting to move things onto it from my native drive.

thanks for giving this some thought

george
 
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