Hi Steve, Thanks for the quick response.
When I said that I could not boot from another drive, I meant that I still had the flash drive in the USB slot (from loading Lion) and when I powered up I held the command and option keys down, thinking I would get a window that allowed me to choose what drive to boot from. Instead I just got the Apple logo and the spinning icon, and then I got what looked like a firmware update bar, and then the progress bar disappeared after only getting about 10% of the way, and then the Apple logo and spinning icon stayed on the screen as long as I waited (which was 30 minutes once, and only a few minutes the other times). I assume that the disappearing progress bar is a bad sign. I did not try booting from the install DVD, or in single user mode, or firewire target mode. I could try those now, though I'm not sure what to do from single user mode or firewire target mode. Before the hang, I ran disk utility and got errors that could not be fixed (by disk utility at least). Is there some other software that might fix them? Thanks, Gregg On Oct 30, 2011, at 5:09 PM, [email protected] wrote: > on 2011-10-30 14:49 Gregg Dinse wrote >> Can anyone interpret this for me? Is it likely a bad hard drive, > > yes, the logs do suggest that you have a corrupt fileysystem > >> or might it be some other hardware problem? > > yes, it could be something else; the failure to boot from another drive means > that something other than the drive is bad, but you didn't say what you tried > to boot from and how you are sure that should have worked > > if the firmware update were downloaded to a failing hard drive, one could > imagine it seeming to download intact but then becoming corrupt during the > update process; that would be bad > >> Is there anything I can try that might help fix or diagnose the problem? > > have you tried booting from an install DVD? do you have a hardware diagnostic > DVD? > > tried firewire target mode? single-user mode (S)? > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
