On Mar 9, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: > >> >> On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: >> >>> Sometimes you can't repair the disk if you're booted from it. Here are a >>> couple things to try. >>> >>> 1. Backup the data portion of the drive using Finder Copy >> >> This is never an advisable way of backing up files. Many types of files are >> invisible and many types of files the Finder just is programmed not to >> display. Copying an entire folder should copy any invisible files contained >> within it but there's no assurance when viewing through the Finder that >> you're ever grabbing everything. >> > > Sure it is . . .I was talking about data files which aren't invisible at all. > From the description of the issues it sounds like directory damage; hence my > recommendation to either try DiskWarrior to repair the directory or else copy > the data elsewhere, reformat the data drive/partition, and copy the data back.
Disks are so cheap today, I wouldn't re-use a drive that started throwing errors. I'd replace it and be done with it. - Milo_______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
