Hard Disk fails to load

fdejongh

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Hi have a PowerMac G4 with two HD's, one used to run on OS9.2, the other - start-up disk - on OS X 10.4.7 Since a couple of days the OS X disk fails to load when starting up. When checking (Mac Disk Utility, DiskWarrior, Norton Systemworks - I ran all several times) I get following message.

Verify and Repair disk “Scapegoat”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Illegal name
Illegal name
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Invalid sibling link
Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit


1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error


DiskWarrior also tells that the System folder can not be found.

When starting up the damaged disk does not show on the desktop, in Disk Utility it is greyed out and can't be loaded.

Is there a way to recover the disk and/or the data on it?
 
Do NOT run Norton Disk Doctor on volumes that have Mac OS X installed on them -- it will cause more damage than anything else. Furthermore, you should un-install Norton SystemWorks on the Mac OS X hard drive if you had installed it in the past.

Make sure you are running the latest version of DiskWarrior: 3.0.3.

If it continues to fail, it's likely that your hard drive is failing on a hardware level or that the data is so corrupted that your only option is to erase and start fresh.
 
I'm using DiskWarrior 3.0.3 that I found after searching the web for a solution to this problem.
According to DiskWarrior Hardware test there seems to be no hardware problem.....
Is there a way to replace or overwrite the systemfolder using Unix or Linux commands to load the disk and save data on the disk? The highest I seem to get is the user level and not the root level.

Attached is a full report of the DiskWarrior directory analysis
 

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