DiskWarrior

Buy and external firewire enclosure that fits that drive. Then get a repair program like DiskWarrior and see if you can repair that disk. ...

Imac 17", G5, 600MHz, 10.4.11, 1.8GHz, 512 RAM, combo drive, 160GB HD, 250GB LaCie external I try to empty the trash, error 8062 appears with the 'stop' or 'continue' button, I click continue, the empty trash prompt box disappears, the trash does not. there is a file in the trash which will not open (ffmpeg_0.0.9y), when I click on it the finder window resets (I never...

There are no problems with the array itself....have run a full Diskwarrior scan to confirm this. ...

DiskWarrior works well. I'd highly recommend trying that. I've also heard of examples of people putting the drive in an external case and at least getting data recovered from it. If your drive is making a noise like that though, chances are it's a hardware failure. Save what data you can from it - then get rid of the drive. Certainly don't reformat a bad drive in hopes...

Node errors can't be repaired with the reinstall, unless you zero all data first. As Disk Utility could not make it, boot to single user mode (command-s at startup) and type /sbin/fsck -fy That may be able to repair more than Disk Utility. If it fails at one run, run a second time, and when done reboot

Try checking the drive with SMART Reporter fault codes: http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23232 Also, try repairing permissions and disk structure with the Disk Utility. And check the Console for any warning messages. Why did you have to repair your drive with DiskWarrior?

i'm worried, i just repaired my hard drive with diskwarrior yesterday, because the directory graph was a mess. after the rebuild there were still a few spots on the graph that were out of place. ...

With Leopard I first did the Upgrade path. That was a big mistake. I bit the bullet and did an Erase & Install. I am now glad I went through that whole install. I am now convinced Apple screwed Leopard install up. So when I upgraded my nephews Macbook it was a full install. I am convinced most problems in Leopard are from the "upgrade" path from 10.4.x. After going three...

'... Superduper! ... backed up my startup hard drive to an external firewire ... hard drive, which ... should be bootable. But I can't get the computer to start from the external hard drive.' - missing information: Mac model, MacOS X version number, and SuperDuper! version number. Quickly, if the (unknown model) Mac is Intel based - was the external FireWire drive formatted...

And Have Ran Diskwarrior 4. I'm Tryin To Install Osx Tiger 10.4. ...