[G4] Hard drive help

Hector I. Macedo hecmac at comcast.net
Wed Nov 16 19:30:23 PST 2005


Good luck, I had a problem similar to that and I think it was Tech  
Tools the guilty part. I didn't have any important stuff on the drive  
so I just re-formated it, but, hopefully you will save yours.


On Nov 16, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Bob Schmidt wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a 1ghz G4 AGP with 768mb of ram running 10.4.3, I was using  
> tech
> tools 4 and ran a check on directory structure on my second hard  
> drive. It
> came back and said that it needed a few repairs, so I allowed those  
> repairs.
> Now my hard drive is gone.
>
> If I use the apple disk repair utility it sees the hard drive but  
> comes back
> with the error:
>
>     Invalid B-tree node size
>     Volume check failed.
>
>     Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
>
> I have tried to verify and repair with the disk utility, to no  
> avail. Does
> anyone have any ideas as to how I could access this drive? I have a  
> ton of
> stuff that I need to get off the drive.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob
>
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