Q: lost+found folder appears after failed disk repair?
Hi all,
I used Disk Utility to try and repair my internal drive last night (from Leopard DVD). It failed with some weird errors, which I didn't write down. (Bad, bad...but I was tired and frustrated and it was late). I then was not able to get my computer to start up. Just sat at the logo screen with spinning gears. I shut it down, via the power button and went to bed.
This morning I decided to try Target Disk Mode so that I could get a couple of files from the drive and use an iBook G4 until I could get the MacBook up and running again. It took a long time for the drive to show up on the desktop of the iBook.
After that, the MacBook started up just fine, but now there is a folder on the root level of the drive called "lost+found" and has odd stuff in it. There is a file called "iNode4538662" which seems to correspond to one of the error messages from DU (maybe missing node?) and is a Unix executable file. There is also a folder called "5410682" which has an empty "Contents" folder inside of it. DU now says the drive is fine, even though it said last night it couldn't fix it.
Anyone have any thoughts? Should I be worried about what's going on with the drive? I do backup, but I'm wondering if something's amiss.
Thanks!
(P.S. Sorry, but I wasn't sure which was the best forum to post this in. Hopefully, it's close enough.)
Message was edited by: Raschelle
I used Disk Utility to try and repair my internal drive last night (from Leopard DVD). It failed with some weird errors, which I didn't write down. (Bad, bad...but I was tired and frustrated and it was late). I then was not able to get my computer to start up. Just sat at the logo screen with spinning gears. I shut it down, via the power button and went to bed.
This morning I decided to try Target Disk Mode so that I could get a couple of files from the drive and use an iBook G4 until I could get the MacBook up and running again. It took a long time for the drive to show up on the desktop of the iBook.
After that, the MacBook started up just fine, but now there is a folder on the root level of the drive called "lost+found" and has odd stuff in it. There is a file called "iNode4538662" which seems to correspond to one of the error messages from DU (maybe missing node?) and is a Unix executable file. There is also a folder called "5410682" which has an empty "Contents" folder inside of it. DU now says the drive is fine, even though it said last night it couldn't fix it.
Anyone have any thoughts? Should I be worried about what's going on with the drive? I do backup, but I'm wondering if something's amiss.
Thanks!
(P.S. Sorry, but I wasn't sure which was the best forum to post this in. Hopefully, it's close enough.)
Message was edited by: Raschelle
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo; 1 GB RAM
Posted on Apr 8, 2009 1:09 PM
by thomas_r.,Solvedanswer
Mac OS X
Raschelle wrote:
DU now says the drive is fine, even though it said last night it couldn't fix it.
Anyone have any thoughts? Should I be worried about what's going on with the drive?
Absolutely! If this happened to me, I would not trust any important data to the drive without first erasing it completely and reinstalling the OS from scratch. You don't know how much data might have been corrupted by the disk damage, so keep any old backups you might have, and don't transfer old settings files to the new system -- redo all your settings from scratch.
This might seem extreme, but if there are problems that Disk Utility can't fix, I personally would consider this to be a requirement.
Posted on Apr 8, 2009 2:21 PM