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It's been so long since I have had problems like this I am a bit fuzzy on how to proceed.
MDD 1.25, OS 10.3.9, 4 i8nternal and two external drives.
My mac froze last night-- frozen cursor, screen, no acceptance of KB input; I did a hard shutdown (holding power button) and restarted-- had another partial freeze (browser locked up with spinning beachball and it progressed to interface lockup-- cmd/option/esc without effect).
Restarted and hung at initial gray screen.
Restarted with option key and chose a different volume. Ran Disk Utility on main volume but froze almost immediately upon "repair disk".
Turned on external FW chain, restarted from a different volume, ejected all but main hard drive once up, ran disk utility, repaired permissions on main drive once, doing it again . . .
Will try to verify/repair the drive again next. Any suggestions on what to do differently?
Thx.
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Drive repair failed-- Tried tio rebuild B-tree and such, and reported that the drive could not be repaired.
So I cleaned out one of my backup drives and am trying to backup my main drive via CCC.
I have a complete backup from last Sunday on an unmounted external . . . afraid to touch it.
Isn't it a bit odd that a drive that is so hosed that it "can't be repaired" can still be read and copied? Any insight appreciated. My next step is to wipe the bad drive and clone back over to it . . .
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Sounds like some type of hardware problem . I'd first disconnect all devices except the mouse and see if the problem persists. If so, then the problem is likely the mouse. FYI Apple optical mice have a record of shorting out - only a new mouse will fix this.
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Drive repair failed is a mouse problem? Interesting.
Carbon Copy Cloner now seems to be hung up at "copying users" (I think, hard to tell-- there's been no progress for a while, and I fear CCC is too dumb to know when it's hit a wall).
Chee-it.
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Oops, I see our posts crossed in the mail. Yes, initially I suspected the hardware and played with cables and plugging/unplugging thing, but the cursor freeze didn't happen in all the subsequent boot-up attempts. My main drive has a hosed directory, simple as that (I hope).
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Looks like you have some directory damage. Do you have DiskWarrior or Drive Genius??? If your lucky and the damage is not too severe then DW will make everything right.
If your not lucky when you did the hard shutdown you may have crashed the heads and damaged the disk.
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Neither DW nor Drive Genius.
Fortunately the "bad" drive seems to be readable, and there are backups on hand-- will just try wiping and recloning. Stupidly I quit out of CCC and started over-- I now see that the progress bar only moves when CCC progresses to another folder, and you can kind of track the progress by folder creation times in the target drive's window.
Probably should have let it go another few . . .
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"Bad" drive wiped (erased-- didn't bother with zeroing and such, if that still exists) , content temporarily moved off of it cloned back, started from it now-- seems to be trouble free. Disk utility is happy with it. I wish there was a way to confirm that all of the filles made it back and forth intact, before I wipe my weekly backup drive to back up.
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BTW the night before the drive got hosed I was downloading a bunch of small stuff trying to find audio decoders to handle .mpc and .flac files. I think somethng in this bunch was probably the culprit.
