Well, my PB had been experiencing "light sabre" problems again with it's drive - I always back-up once a week, but for once I had gone 10 days without backing up this time. The grinding and Star Wars related sounds that my PB's HD was giving off was worrying - especially when it wouldn't wake from sleep and was pain stakingly slow at rebooting too.
Then I got the folder with the question mark and I was at a loss... I put in the DW disk and rebooted. DW could not see my directory folder (to graph it) so I just rebuilt the directory. This took a bit longer than usual but woohoo! I was able to reboot on the newly built drive. I am backing up with SuperDuper as I write this post and will be looking at sending my PB in to a registered Apple technical centre. I am still getting these whirring and grinding noises, made even worse when you pick up and move the PB around (for effect) - sorry for the Star Wars reference but it REALLY does sound like a light sabre!
Just wanted ppl out there who had not tried DiskWarrior yet to purchase this lifesaving piece of software (well, imho anyway) - not the 1st time DW has helped me out of a tricky spot... but definitely the ONE time I needed it's help.
Apologies to those who already know this...
And yeah, that's GMT... I did all this at 4.30am
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