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How to solve this HD failure?
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Aug 25, 2007, 11:36 AM
 
Just out of curiosity I run the disk utility and... it found a failure that it cannot recover... The machine seems to work well but I want to repair this error.
What can I do?


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Aug 25, 2007, 11:42 AM
 
Boot from your OS X install/restore disc. Try running it that way. Often you can't make certain changes to the boot drive while running disk utility from it.
     
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Aug 25, 2007, 11:59 AM
 
cool i'm gonna try that
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Aug 25, 2007, 01:19 PM
 
If it still fails, pick up a copy of DiskWarrior. You won't regret it.
     
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Aug 26, 2007, 01:00 AM
 
In case running it from the install DVD doesn't do the trick, I'd try fsck in single-user mode first (especially to see what error messages come up) before I spend money on any commercial tool.
     
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Aug 29, 2007, 04:15 PM
 
Thanks guys it worked very well
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