tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post7889920577710756427..comments2023-12-23T07:27:08.555-06:00Comments on Ramblings o' Techie: OS X - Repair disk errors like invalid node structurerslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-48502261597962920612020-06-19T12:52:58.302-05:002020-06-19T12:52:58.302-05:00Thank you so much for this post. It helped to get ...Thank you so much for this post. It helped to get damaged El Capitan copy running in no time. I'm a music composer and had a month's work of compositions that wasn't backed up. If I had to redo all of it, it would have been a nightmare. One hitch was the Spotlight Search icon gone forever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-23790357285732290092019-04-08T14:53:27.091-05:002019-04-08T14:53:27.091-05:00Hi, I see Mac has this problrm over years. I also ...Hi, I see Mac has this problrm over years. I also go this msg <br />∆ VOLUME / IS MOUNTED WITH WRITE ACCESS. RE-RUN WITH (-l) TO FREEZE VOLUME. <br />when I try your command with DISK1S2 it shows the following:<br />∆ NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY. STARTING. CANT CHECK FILE SYSTEM. RUN MANUALLY<br /><br />WHAT CAN I DO?<br /><br />GRACIAS!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-75297274029287824752015-09-23T05:17:16.176-05:002015-09-23T05:17:16.176-05:00After spending hours trying to fix this (tried upg...After spending hours trying to fix this (tried upgrading to Yosemite from Snow Leopard) and going round and round on the Internet and having MANY people tell me the hard drive is bad and needs replaced, I finally found this and after running fsck twice, to my surprise said repaired successfully! THANK YOU very much for your help. REALLY appreciate it!!Nick Lakinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09097077047272950215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-24937806394452362212015-04-20T09:06:05.477-05:002015-04-20T09:06:05.477-05:00Thank you! The only thing that worked!Thank you! The only thing that worked!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-15413626616147682302015-01-30T12:18:34.767-06:002015-01-30T12:18:34.767-06:00OMG! This actually worked!!! You saved me!!! I am ...OMG! This actually worked!!! You saved me!!! I am eternally grateful! Thank you so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-60618783726171166932014-06-30T11:18:02.302-05:002014-06-30T11:18:02.302-05:00Thanks for sharing sin, and yes, if the drive moun...Thanks for sharing sin, and yes, if the drive mounts then you should be able to plug in an external drive and copy files over. You may not be able to get all of them without hitting some corruption, but it's still much better than having a complete loss of datarslyghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-75208502841470542402014-06-28T05:13:49.273-05:002014-06-28T05:13:49.273-05:00Just want to share what I did yesterday. I did all...Just want to share what I did yesterday. I did all the stuffs mentioned in your blog and retry it again and again, but the error still persisted, and I began to wonder if I could still save my data at all.<br /><br />But, I realized that for some reason, Disk Utility could still mount my drive when I boot from the Install CD. So what I did was to connect my backup hard disk, enter the terminal, sinhttp://sin-logs.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-55243574808878773492014-06-02T20:11:45.139-05:002014-06-02T20:11:45.139-05:00Sorry to hear that Maya. Unfortunately, if this tr...Sorry to hear that Maya. Unfortunately, if this trick doesn't fix the invalid node issue then I think your best bet is going to be a 3rd party recovery tool like Diskwarrior, or professional recovery services. I'm not promoting Diskwarrior in particular as I've never used it, but it seems to be a popular one.<br /><br />Now, if you definitely have a good image of the hard drive, this rslyghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-62490629240171048992014-05-30T19:57:19.843-05:002014-05-30T19:57:19.843-05:00Hey there--
I've been googling and reading a...Hey there-- <br /><br />I've been googling and reading and googling and reading and trying fixes and failing all day. Out of all the websites I've read though, it seems like you might be the best help in troubleshooting my problem. <br /><br />Yesterday my mac froze and since it wasn't responding to any commands, I manually shut it down. After a couple failed attempts booting it up Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-57618330925490815422014-05-29T01:01:10.288-05:002014-05-29T01:01:10.288-05:00After numerous fails, attempts, persistence, it wo...After numerous fails, attempts, persistence, it worked. Thanks so much, life saver (on snow leopard).Nic leehttp://niclee.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-19584437011839060752014-03-20T10:44:43.648-05:002014-03-20T10:44:43.648-05:00If you were able to get the affected hard drive in...If you were able to get the affected hard drive into target disk mode and have it show up on a second Mac, I hope you backed up your files? Once that's done my next suggestion would be to reinstall OS X and start fresh. It sounds like the corruption is too much for this command to fix, or that the hard drive is faulty. Your best bet now would be to try getting whatever data off the drive thatrslyghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-31566319286741203942014-03-15T03:53:56.412-05:002014-03-15T03:53:56.412-05:00hi ! i have this problem in my powerbook with tige...hi ! i have this problem in my powerbook with tiger<br />i try your method with mac os install dvd ,terminal says invalid node structure and mac os can not be repaired<br />i have disk warrior dvd but computer doesn’t take this dvd (can’t read ) i tried disk warrior in target mode but host computer doesn’t see target computer >>><br />and pre story - i had this invalid sibling linkLolessiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08865430037967422711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-14396644233807615562014-01-24T11:14:21.656-06:002014-01-24T11:14:21.656-06:00Thank you so much! This totally worked on my i&...Thank you so much! This totally worked on my i& imac running 10.6.8. I had to boot from cd and alternate running your terminal command and disk utility. IT took about 3 hours of cycling through and allowing the terminal to hang for 15 minutes, but finally spit out a string of fixes and said repairs were successful.<br /><br />You saved my machine! Just completed an 8 hour time machine backup,Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07205301428467915587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-37575026177105259292013-10-03T13:50:12.464-05:002013-10-03T13:50:12.464-05:00Sorry Alon, but if you dropped it and are having t...Sorry Alon, but if you dropped it and are having trouble it's probably a safe guess that the hard drive has physical damage. In that case you'd have to send it off for professional recovery (big $$$) or if you don't have a backup of the files consider it a loss and get a new hard drive.rslyghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-60780243429250620932013-09-27T10:38:36.975-05:002013-09-27T10:38:36.975-05:00Thank you. This saved me a lot of time and headach...Thank you. This saved me a lot of time and headache.HJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-61018649787494630462013-09-16T11:19:34.324-05:002013-09-16T11:19:34.324-05:00Just got it to run again and got:
The volume MacB...Just got it to run again and got:<br /><br />The volume MacBook HD could not be repaired.<br />Volume type is pure HFS+<br />Primary MDB is at block 0 0x00<br />Alternate MDB is at block 0 0x00<br />Primary VHB is at block 2 0x02<br />AlternateVHB is at block 976101342 0x3a2e1fe<br />Sector size = 512 0x200<br />VolumeObject flags = 0x07<br />Total sectors for volume 976101344 0x3a2e1fe0<br />Alonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-22693369774426778512013-09-16T11:00:03.572-05:002013-09-16T11:00:03.572-05:00Hi, I dropped my MacBook and understandably haven...Hi, I dropped my MacBook and understandably haven't been able to start up since. I keep trying to do what you wrote but after one long run in which it said that it couldn't be repaired, now it says "No write access/unexpected inconsistency; run fsck_hfs manually". Any advice? Thanks in advance. Alonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-45865483903790564032013-08-21T15:07:22.407-05:002013-08-21T15:07:22.407-05:00Thanks man!!!!! You saved my life! Tried so many t...Thanks man!!!!! You saved my life! Tried so many things and it was not working!Dirty Swifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18068461134704244754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-34766196857860487862013-08-06T15:57:34.047-05:002013-08-06T15:57:34.047-05:00Just wanted to thank you very much. Your how-to co...Just wanted to thank you very much. Your how-to course really saved my a** that night. It worked pretty good on MacOS 10.7.5. Everything worked out like expected. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-46847179463272738332013-07-19T22:24:32.925-05:002013-07-19T22:24:32.925-05:00This worked for me -- many thanks!
MBP (2009) wo...This worked for me -- many thanks! <br /><br />MBP (2009) would not boot, even in safe mode. <br />Disk Utility could not repair the disk. <br />fsck_hfs followed by Disk Utility did the trick. <br />(At least I was able to get key backed up. Probably should back everything up and reinstall system software...)<br /><br />Thanks again. <br />-GLGeoPa58https://www.blogger.com/profile/13159799518234199826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-62780050810435981762013-05-27T19:12:31.937-05:002013-05-27T19:12:31.937-05:00Hi, after completing the steps 11, the issue was ...Hi, after completing the steps 11, the issue was not resolved. So as per step 13 went back to disk utility and tried to mount the internal harddrive and it did not allow stating harddrive cannot me mounted. i am on 10.6.8. How do i mount now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-5215127326281423742013-05-07T11:01:58.548-05:002013-05-07T11:01:58.548-05:00Hi Brie,
Two hours seems pretty long, but I can&#...Hi Brie,<br /><br />Two hours seems pretty long, but I can't remember how long my longest attempt went. My suggestion would be to leave it be, but you could also try restarting it. There's a chance it's caught up and that restarting the process will help it get past the issue. There's also the chance that when you kill the job that you unknowingly were only a few minutes away fromrslyghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-43054726440966468412013-05-03T22:13:12.333-05:002013-05-03T22:13:12.333-05:00Thank you for this post! I was able to run the fsc...Thank you for this post! I was able to run the fsck_hfs command and it has been going for about two hours. It is obviously doing something but the messages being returned are things like "invalid record count" and "invalid node structure". Is this to be expected or should I assume at this point that it's not accomplishing anything? Any assistance you can provide is very Brienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-41056725411009448022013-04-17T15:29:43.685-05:002013-04-17T15:29:43.685-05:00Unfortunately that's not a good sign. You coul...Unfortunately that's not a good sign. You could attempt using Target Disk mode to access the contents of your drive if you have another working Mac and both have firewire ports. To do that you connect the two with firewire, then boot the device you're trying to access while holding down the T key. Then it shows up on the working Mac as an external drive. However, this likely won't rslyghhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-26125040737355880432013-04-15T17:39:32.076-05:002013-04-15T17:39:32.076-05:00hi,
i tried your command, but it just says "i...hi,<br />i tried your command, but it just says "invalid volume header" and "the volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired" along with a lot of other stuff. any help. i cant seem to mount my Macintosh HD. its greyed out in disk utility.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09853522070373517427noreply@blogger.com