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short key length drive error?
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Hello-
I recently hosed the drive in my dual 2ghz when it just came to a halt and I hard reset it with the power button. It won't boot off the internal drive and I've tried to fix it with Diskwarrior with no luck. Disk Utility gives me the short key length error. Anyone ever heard of a short key length error? I'm thinking it has something to do with the directory bitmap which wasn't written completely when I hit the reset. Anyway, just curious if anyone had suggestions before I wipe it and start over. I'm trying to use Data Rescue to pull my most recent, important stuff off of it. I do have a backup but it's several weeks old. Such a bummer. I will say I was putting it through it's paces when it happened. I didn't know the fans could turn at that speed! Anyway, I was just looking for any creative ideas before I give up. Thanks for any help you can give-
Tim
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Is data rescue complaining about bad blocks?
Why didn't diskwarrior work? What kind of errors did it give?
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Diskwarrior just locks up when I run it. It gets to step five "locating directory data" and just hangs for hours. I realize it might just be carefully assmbling the directory pieces back together but I'm having excellent results with data rescue so I just went that route so far. I've been able to recover every single file I select which leads me to believe that the drive is intact but the diretory is hosed. Do you think Diskwarrior would eventually fix it if I let it run for day? Data Rescue isn't complaining about bad blocks. I had that on my old ibook and it was able to recover about 90% of my stuff.
Originally posted by Detrius:
Is data rescue complaining about bad blocks?
Why didn't diskwarrior work? What kind of errors did it give?
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Diskwarrior can take many hours to repair a badly corrupt disk. I'd let it run.
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gave up and wiped it clean. I will treat the reset button with more respect next time. Thanks for the replies-
arclight/tim
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Originally Posted by Detrius
Is data rescue complaining about bad blocks?
Why didn't diskwarrior work? What kind of errors did it give?
I'm running Data Rescue on a 120 GB and a 72 hour thorough content scan continually gave a bad block message.
After successfully recovering a few files from the four dozen I could see of the thousands that should be there, I'm starting a pretty large recovery with fingers crossed. What do bad blocks mean to my data rescue? Is this physical damage? Is it likely most of my files are lost?
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