On Aug 3, 2016, at 11:29 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Like many teens, he didn’t pay a bit of attention and the drive was never > backed up AND in all these years the Directory was never rebuilt… > > Now the thing is SO bad when I ran the latest DiskWarrior, going into the > Terminal, and letting DiskWarrior do it’s thing from the root I finally get a > message that the directory is SO DAMAGED it can’t be rebuilt and this may > have caused mechanical damage. > > First, EVERYONE needs to rebuild the Directory once in awhile, less > frequently on Mac’s with little usage, but a college student with all their > continual work needs to do this often… You could try another directory fixer such as TechTool or Drive Genius. They might be better with the particular problems on that drive. I assume you’ve tried Apple’s Disk Utility. There’s always Data Rescue that doesn’t mess with directories, but searches the whole drive to find files. I never rebuild my directories and haven’t had problems. On laptops, I try not to close the lid while files are being written and I wait for the power light to start “breathing” before I move the machine. > Second, do you think if I reformat the drive all will be O.K.? I don’t have > a good backup since he never did this either but at least I would be back in > business and we could see if any of the items are retrievable off TimeMachine. If the drive’s SMART status is good and it passes a surface scan by something like TechTool, it seems to me reformatting it ought to work. > Instead of doing this do you think Apple would have tools that would be more > powerful than DiskWarrior and it would be best to take this to them? Could be worth a try. They may have better software to take advantage of the journal file. Of course, you should keep in mind their primary mission is to sell you a new drive or even a new machine. I’ve replaced hard drives for many people who’ve been told by Apple their original drive was bricked. They’ve often given me the “bad” drive. I've then used the “bad” drive for years afterward with no problems. L^2
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