On Mar 9, 2009, at 2:16 PM, joe wrote:
> I'm got a G4 AGP with plenty of RAM (1.5 gig because I lent a 512 > mg stick to another computer), 1.4 GHz cpu, running up-to-date > Tiger (10.4.11) > > I've got two HDs inside on the regular IDE HD bus. Both are over- > sized and partitioned thusly: > 500 (actually 465.76GB) GB drive > partition 1 127.88 GB with the OS on it > partition 2 the rest of that drive > 200 GB (actually 189.92) GB drive > partition 1 127.86 GB > partition 2 the rest of that drive > > I've also got a 180 GB drive in an external firewire enclosure in > two partitions: > partition 1: 127.88 GB with a relatively good back-up of the > system partition > partition 2: the rest, with backups of other more-or-less > important stuff > > Oh yeah--IIRC, they're all HFS+, journaled. > > I've got a slightly out-of-date copy of the FireWire drive on a > "loose" HD that was having some hardware troubles when I retired it. > > I use Intech's hi-cap kext to see the oversized partitions of the > drives (but can see just the first partitions when I boot from a > disk). > > My problem is this: > > That first partition on the big internal drive, the one with the OS > on it, is messed up--not hardware. Once in a while it fails to > mount, as if it's got a corrupted directory file. > > However, when I run DiskWarrior, it spends some 12 hours or so > working on it, and then finally fails. I've booted from the > firewire drive and run Disk Utility's repair disk on the drive--it > identifies a ton of overlapped files, but finally fails. Joe; What I would try [Assuming that you have backups of all the files on the HD (both partitions)]. Keep Re-Running 'Disk Utility repair Disk' until there are no changes from report to report. At that point try and identify the 'culprit' file. delete that file, and then re-run 'Disk Utility repair disk' again. [Hopefully, is will allow 'repair disk' to now complete.] WHEN you get the HD to the point that everything that you want to save is 'elsewhere'. Go through a cycle of writing Zeros [To the whole HD, NOT individual partitions.] to give the hardware a chance to do it's magic of mapping bad sectors. Then, re-partition as desired, and restore things. Just the way I'd tackle this problem. [You did ask!! ;-)] Chuck D. Chuck D. > > Usually, just trying again (restarting from the firewire or even > from a disk) gets it to mount again. When I try to do a full back- > up of the problem drive, it understandably fails. When I do an > incremental back-up, it usually fails, but at least not until after > it's backed up everything that seems to matter to me. > > Any idea how I should go about fixing stuff? > > Are there other 3rd party disk repair apps that don't rely on the > same thing in my system that seems to be failing (fsck_hfs)? > > I'm thinking I may just get a 140 GB drive and just use the first > 127.88 GB as my system drive from now on. (That way I can deal > with just that one partition and nothing else on that drive.) I > imagine I can clone from my FW back-up. After I've got that > working, I suppose I can erase that problematic partition to re-use > it. Since the problem is overlapping files and a corrupted disk > directory, just a simple erase should make that partition usable > again, right? If not, I can't re-format just that partition > somehow--leaving the larger partition on that drive untouched? > > Joe > > ============================== > Joe the Juggler > 4148 Wyoming St. > St. Louis, MO 63116 > (314) 771-3243 > http://joethejuggler.com > ============================== > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
