I have Disk Warrior for OS9. I booted my Mac into 9 and ran diskwarrior. It took a couple of hours but it is fixed with much, if any, data loss.
But, that said, I probably will stop by and get a copy of disk warrior for X. By any chance, is there an upgrade? Hint, hint! :-) Harry Monday, January 5, 20045:02 PMWard Oldhamwoldham at insightbb.com >Hi Harry, > >You1ll probably have good luck with Disk Warrior. We always have copies in >the store. > >Ward > > >From: "Harry Jacobson-Beyer" <harryjb at bellsouth.net> >Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:47:55 -0500 >To: Macusergroup <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >Subject: MacGroup: External fire wire drive - uhoh > >Well, I goofed. I unplugged an external fire wire drive without first >ejecting it via the finder. > >Now it will not mount on the desktop. Disk utility sees the drive but >when I try to repair it I get the following message: > > >Repairing disk for "FireWire 80 GB" >Checking HFS Plus volume. >Checking Extents Overflow file. >Checking Catalog file. >hash table full (1024 entries) >Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972) > >Repair attempted on 1 volume > 0 HFS volumes repaired > 1 volume could not be repaired > >I don't have any other osx disk utilities. Any idea if another utility >(techtool, diskwarrior) might fix the problem? > >Thanks. > >Harry > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
