invalid B-tree node size

[SonicChaos756]

yeah i need help with this, i was playing with my powerbook g4 and it slowed down and froze so i turned it off, then while it started loading then it froze again then i did the same thing over then it started to load then it went to this gray background w/ a folder that blink a question mark and a smily face. i downloaded this program called BootCD and it boots a very simple mac os x 10.3.9 off of the CD and i went to disk utilty and tryed to verify disk and i get and error:

Verifying volume "disk0s3"
checking HFS Plus volume

invalid B-Tree node size
The volume needs to be repaired

volume check failed

ERROR: The Underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)

1 volume checked
0 HFS volumes verified
1 volume failed verification


i tryed repaing it and it didnt work, is there anyway to fix this? plz help

[Tommo]

Unlikely I'm afraid. I had a similar issue with a Mac and in the end I had to re-install the OS. Some people have reported success using Disk Warrior, but more have reported that they needed to re-install.

[Giaguara]

If DiskWarrior can't fix it, or you don't have diskwarrior, try copying all files using command line to some other disk (unless you have a fresh backup) then do an erase and install on that drive.