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daleslad - Jan 22, 2006 - 3:07 pm

When I run the disk utility to check the hard drive it tell me I have an Invalid Leaf Count (it should be 21 instead of 239)
After the repair is finished it says the volume was repaired successfully.

I ran it again to see if the findings were different the second time but I got the same findings about the invalid leaf count but the volume was repaired successfully the second time too.

I did the repair 3 times and still got the findings about the leaf count being invalid.

I would think if the volume was repaired successfully it wouldn't be finding a problem with the leaf count, whatever that is.

bobw - Jan 22, 2006 - 3:25 pm

Hi Jim

If Disk Utility won't repair the drive, you can either get DiskWarrior;

http://www.alsoft.com

and use that to repair, or backup and reformat the drive.

In any case, you should backup anything important right away.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

daleslad - Jan 23, 2006 - 2:08 am

I ran Disk Warrior Bob but got the same results with Disk Utility when I ran it again.

bobw - Jan 23, 2006 - 9:03 am

Jim

I would backup your files then reformat the drive.

After doing that check with Disk Utility again. If you still get the errors, replace the drive.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

daleslad - Jan 23, 2006 - 12:34 pm

Bob what are the leaf counts the error was referring to.

bobw - Jan 23, 2006 - 1:40 pm

Jim

It's part of the directory structure of the disk.

bobw
http://www.macosx.com

daleslad - Jan 23, 2006 - 10:39 pm

you'd think DW would repair that but it didn't even say there was a problem