[X-Newbies] A real mess.....

[Steven Rogers]

On Jan 25, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Chris wrote:

> On 24/1/06 Steven Rogers wrote:
>
>> You won't be able to do this if the disk won't mount. If the
>> directory information is hosed, and Disk Warrior won't fix it, then
>> you're probably out of luck. It never hurts to try all the possible
>> tools once you have nothing to loose.
>
> In my case the disk wouldn't mount but could be seen from a firewire
> disk.  Hmm, I suppose in that case it *would* mount but not under its
> own steam. :-)  Either way the problem was similar to the one  
> described,
> although I was able to start from the CD and reinstall the system.
> Never did find out what was wrong or what caused it.

If you were able to get your stuff off the disk, then make a backup  
and run Disk Warrior (or better yet, reformat).

SR