What Is Wrong With My Hard Drive?!

[Brandon]

Everytime I run the Disk Utility, it stops and can't complete because of the following error:

[Eidorian]

Eh, I've been hearing about a batch of these lately. Boot off of your OS X Tiger disc and repair disc permissions using the boot copy of Disk Utility. As always. Backup BEFORE you do that. You might need to reinstall OS X.

[Brandon]

I'm thinking about just re-installing OS X after backing everything up like you said. I hope there's nothing wrong with the HDD.

[Moses]

Try doing what Eidorian said, just Repair Disk first, not Permissions. If all else fails, you have Apple Care... right...?

[Eidorian]

Try doing what Eidorian said, just Repair Disk first, not Permissions. If all else fails, you have Apple Care... right...?Yeah, I forgot that you'd be running off of the DVD so that the hard drive wouldn't be mounted. Repair disc in see if that works.

[Brandon]

Try doing what Eidorian said, just Repair Disk first, not Permissions. If all else fails, you have Apple Care... right...?I can't repair the disk because I get that error and can't go farther. I'm going to boot Disk Utility from the disc and see how that goes.

[Eidorian]

I can't repair the disk because I get that error and can't go farther. I'm going to boot Disk Utility from the disc and see how that goes.You can't repair an actively mounted drive. You need to boot off of your DVD.

[Moses]

Did it work?

Usually it means time to break out the 6pin to 6pin and backup.

[Brandon]

You can't repair an actively mounted drive. You need to boot off of your DVD.Are you even reading my posts? I said I was going to boot from the disc and you're telling me to boot from the disc.

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Did it work?

Usually it means time to break out the 6pin to 6pin and backup.I'm backing up my stuff as we speak at breakneck 2MB/sec speeds (hence my other thread). I can't wait to build my new comp. This is ridiculous. It took me 8 hours to transfer 20GB of stuff. Luckily I don't have much more to back up.

[Moses]

You obviously did it wrong.















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[Brandon]

I haven't done anything yet. And Bill Murray is the man. ;)

[Eidorian]

I'm backing up my stuff as we speak at breakneck 2MB/sec speeds (hence my other thread). I can't wait to build my new comp. This is ridiculous. It took me 8 hours to transfer 20GB of stuff. Luckily I don't have much more to back up.And that is why we use FireWire. That or network storage.

[Brandon]

It's a USB 2.0 hard drive and this computer only has USB 1.0 ports. "That is why we use FireWire" isn't the moral of the story. The problem is the computer. I was 30 bucks short of the USB 2.0/FireWire version of this drive at the time of purchase. I needed it immediately though, so I don't feel bad about the purchase.

[Moses]

Buy a crossover cable, shit. DO NOT DO USB 1.0.

[Brandon]

DO NOT DO USB 1.0I have no choice, really.


Buy a crossover cable, shitThat won't work on my HDD.

[Moses]

Burn.