[weishanren]

I'm running out of solutions. A couple of nights ago I installed x11 and Gimp in my 12'' PB (1.33 ghz, 1GB ram). No problems, that night but in the morning when I rebooted my computer it would make it to the blue screen to start OS X. The blue bar would load to full and remain there. I left it for 20 minutes and there was no change. So, having searched the forums I've tried the following steps:

1. Safe Boot - I held shift till the grey screen with the gear, the load took a little longer, but ended up stalling at the same point.
2. I attempted to boot into single user mode (command+s), ran fsck -yf. The first round modified the disk, the second round came back "ok", PB still won't boot.
3. I pulled the install disk and ran disk utility, verify permissions, repair permissions, verify disk, repair disk. I get "reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data" followed by "Invalid leaf record count" and finally "1HFS volume repaired" "1 volume could no be repaired"

So, I have files that I put on in the last week that I have not been backed up yet, and I'd like them back. Is there any step that I have skipped? Or, any recommendations in general?

Cheers

[Cold Warrior]

You could try firewire target disk mode to access the drive and recover the files -- assuming the hard drive isn't completely hosed.

[mduell]

GIMP didn't trash your disk, but fscking may have.

Sounds like it's time to buy a copy of Disk Warrior or Data Rescue II.

[weishanren]

Thanks, ColdWarrior. That allowed me to get the files from the few programs I hadn't backed up. Then I just wiped the drive and reinstalled Tiger. Appreciate the help.

[Cold Warrior]

Glad it worked.