Disk Utility and Disk Warrior error on internal hard drive....PLEASE HELP!!

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Disk Utility and Disk Warrior error on internal hard drive....PLEASE HELP!!

After running idefrag on my internal Western Digital 120gig hard drive. The drive did not appear after I rebooted my mac. I opened Disk Utility and the drive is there but grayed out. I used "repair disk" under First Aid and it gave me this error:

Verify and Repair disk “HD 120”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.

Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit

1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error

Then I tried using Disk Warrior 3.0 to rebuild and it gave me this error:

error ""WD 120 GB" cannot be rebuilt. The original directory is too severely damaged. The disk was not modified (2155, 2179)".

I'm not sure if this is the right area to post this, but I need help as most of my important data is on this hard drive. What else can I do?

I am on a g4 quicksilver with 10.4.3 installed.

G4 867 Quicksilver, Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Posted on Dec 13, 2005 9:13 PM

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thienedits Author

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Dec 13, 2005 10:07 PM in response to thienedits

HOLY CRAP!!! I decided to try and use Drive 10.1.5 even though Micromat says not to use it for Tiger! Amazingly it worked, I can now access my drive. I tried Tech Tool Pro 4 as recommended by Micromat and that did not work. I tried using the Data Recovery tool in TTP4 and it kept freezing my system. What gives.

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Answer 2

Dec 13, 2005 10:08 PM in response to thienedits

Hi;

Before you give up on your disk, I would suggest getting DiskWarrior version 3.0.3. This is the latest version and is supposed to be compatable with Tiger. I know that is the one I am using and it has worked for me.

Allan

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Answer 3

Dec 13, 2005 10:11 PM in response to thienedits

Hi;

What version of Tech Tools were you using?

That also was recently upgraded. I have 4.0.6 and it is working for me.

Allan

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Answer 4

Dec 13, 2005 10:15 PM in response to thienedits

Sorry to hear about your problem but unless you are working with very large files such as with video editing, etc., using a defrag utility is not required with OS X and no defrag utility should be used on a hard drive without a backup first.

The current Disk Warrior version for Tiger is 3.0.3 and if Disk Warrior cannot repair the drive/directory, it must be in bad shape which was caused by using idefrag.

You can try using a data recovery utility such as Data Rescue (Prosoft Engineering) which includes a free trial version.

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