Oh soddit, help please :(

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Phate

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So for some reason I decided to power down my Mac Pro, never normally.

Turn it back on, takes forever to load into OSX and finder etc is crashing everywhere...not good.

Boot OSX disc, 'invalid sibling link'....hmmm

Basically, doesn't seem like I can repair it, but have to format it.

Fortunately 95% of my important data is on other drives but its my documents folder I really need from this, got it plugged in via usb now into the MB and I can't see it in the finder, disk utility sees it but wont mount it...


*******'s....big hairy ones :(

Any ideas how I can get the docs guys, or browse the drive?

Cheers.
Jake
 
If it really isn't able to be read using an external enclosure then the only other option is to see if it will mount when it is in the Mac Pro and booted off another HD...

Otherwise... this is what Time Machine was invented for.
 
Update, downloaded and install DiskWarrior on the Macbook, told it to rebuild the directory table and now im previewing it (drive is connected via usb) - In it, I've browsed the hard drive and grabbed my all important docs :)

Now going to try and placing the new drive structure on the drive, if it works - great! if not, I can happily reload now :)

And yes, this has just emphasised how badly I need a time machine drive :o
 
Concorde Rules said:
Yea well RMA/Replace that disk.

There is a reason it errored in the first place, I wouldn't trust it.
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Given that the OP seems to imply that he did an uncontrolled shutdown of the system at the start of his post then doing that may well be over the top.

Powering off without shutting down could well have screwed up some logical filesystem structure on the disk causing the problem, (hence a software issue which the third party software could fix relatively easily), instead of an actual failure of the drive itself.
 
You have misunderstand my good fellow. I shut it down as per procedure, IE - I didn't hold down the power button....I just never normally turn it off.

I think it has something to do with DiskInventoryX myself....had a lot of misc issues after I last run it. But its just a suspicion.
 
memyselfandi said:
Given that the OP seems to imply that he did an uncontrolled shutdown of the system at the start of his post then doing that may well be over the top.

Powering off without shutting down could well have screwed up some logical filesystem structure on the disk causing the problem, (hence a software issue which the third party software could fix relatively easily), instead of an actual failure of the drive itself.
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Whenever i've had file system errors on a disk the disk quickly follows tbh.
 
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