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Invalid content in Journal - how to mount? how to backup?

Hello all,

Can mount my second HD anymore (no Icon on the dsktop).

Disk Tool reports the follows:
Started verify/repair volume (filesystem) on disk disk0s3 HD2
*Invalid content in Journal*
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume
Checking Extents Overflow file
Checking Catalog file
... and so on ...

Repairing shows success, but it's not really successfull because if I run the verify a second
time, the error apears again and the disk is still unmountable.

Did a lot of reading in the www.
Found this:
http://dmunsie.wordpress.com/code/hacks/
but did not help for me.

Some hints goes to DiskWarrior. But just for a try, 100$ is quite a lot.

Tryed to create a dmg with command:
dd bs=65k if=/dev/disk0s3 of=/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Backup/HD2.dmg conv=noerror,sync
it works (need 14 hours!) bit I can not open the dmg (error: file damaged).


Does anyone have a hint for me.
Thanks very much
Michael

From the SysProfiler: (sorry in german!)

ST3500630AS:

Kapazität: 465.76 GB
Modell: ST3500630AS
Version: 3.AAK
Seriennummer: 9QG1RTER
Wechselmedien: Nein
Absteckbares Laufwerk: Nein
BSD-Name: disk0
Protokoll: ata
Einheiten-Nummer: 0
Socket-Typ: Serial-ATA
Name des Schachts: "A (upper)"
Treiber für Mac OS 9: Nein
Partitionstabellentyp: APM (Apple Partition Map)
S.M.A.R.T.-Status: Überprüft
Volumes:
HD2:
Kapazität: 465.64 GB
Beschreibbar: Ja
Dateisystem: Journaled HFS+
BSD-Name: disk0s3
Mount-Point: <<<<< Mount-Point lost!! <<<<<<<

G5, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 2:00 PM

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Posted on Feb 29, 2008 12:59 PM

I just had this problem on my daughter's Macbook. I eventually resolved it by running:

/System/Library/Filesystems/hfs.fs/hfs.util -N /dev/disk0s2

Though I see in your case it would be disk0s3 instead. 🙂 Hope this helps!
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