Have 10.6.8, 4 gigs ram. Dl'd and ran Lion install rebooted to message that hard drive was damaged and could not be repaired. Now cannot reboot my machine without that message. Put my original snow leopard in drive but can't get anywhere. Also, I cannot hit the continue or any button with my trackpad.
imac, Mac OS X (10.5.7), IMAC, 4 gigs memory
Depending on whether/when an installation was interrupted, what you describe could be normal for an interrupted state. Please try the following:
If Recovery OS Disk Utility continues to report an issue, copy the text of the issue then use Recovery OS Safari to paste to this topic.
Unused node is not erased (node=924)
Checking catalog file
Invalid node structure
The volume Macintosh HD could not be verified completely
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. ClickRepair Disk
Repair Disk is greyed out.
(My post moved to somewhere beneath Charles' cross-post.)
The startup disk showed but when selected it saya "You can't change the startup disk to the selected disk" Startup disk could not gather enough information on the selected disk. OK
Now what??
Avoiding cross-posts, let's continue in the other topic.
And if you use SoftRaid, upgrade to the current version, 4.07. That is also a show-stopper.
If you were to run Disk Utility on the drive, what does Disk Utility say about the S.M.A.R.T. status?
When you select the physical drive on the left in Disk Utility (the left justified one above the volume names), does it give the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom?
That's the hard drive itself is reporting its status and if it is failing it needs to be serviced. "Direct from the horses mouth" as it were.
I have exactly the same issue. Did you figure anything out to get back to Snow Leopard? I am just hoping I have not lost everything on my hard driev and want to get back to SL and forget about Lion until Apple fixes their many issues...
To save myself from the first install and the trackpad failure - I used Bamboo which is attached to my Imac via USB. Then I booted to my install disks - reformatted my machine and restored my files from Time Machine.
Preceding second install of Lion, I verified my hard drive using the original install disks ... all was good "seemed ok"
Then I ran Lion and there it was again, disk damaged, node something. Backed out, reformatted and restored from TM.
Don't want a 3rd attempt because I'm feeling lucky to have my files back. If someone knows exactly WHY this is happening then I can trouble shoot how to fix it.
Thanks!
Have you verified and repaired your disk in disk utility?
if you have lion installed hold cmd+R while booting up and it'll take you to the lion partition that then lets you reinstall or go into disk utility and repair your disks.
Seeking clarification
bfmcmillen wrote:
I ran Lion and there it was again, disk damaged, node something. Backed out
Was that damage reported by Mac OS X Installer whilst the grey linen background was present?
Mac OS X Installer pictured in the background in screenshot 001 at http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2011/07/25/d/c/
Was that damage reported by Disk Utility in Recovery OS Mac OS X Utilities whilst the grey linen background was presented?
Mac OS X Utilities pictured by Macworld and others
Did you key command-r at any point?
What was the name of the thing that you backed out from?
Lion is now installed on my machine. Two previous failed installations. After each failed installation I ran disk verify from the original sl disk in the cd drive. I had to erase and reformat the drive and restore from time machine.
The successful installation: I ran disk verify before the lion install and from the cd. No errors. But then I also ran permissions verify and repaired any issues. Then I re downloaded and installed Lion with success.
There had been no reported permissions issue previously but verify found issues. Don't know if this is the issue on my machine but fixing it preceded the successful installation of Lion. Perhaps it will help some one else.
Hey Everyone!!!!! I am really new to this chats but I am really scared... I own a MacBook Pro 13" and upgraded it to a 1TB Hard Drive by Toshiba. It was great having all the extra space after always having to buy an extra memory hard drive. The thiing is that I downloaded Lion because I was exited to have it. When suddenly got a strange thing that said that My Hard Drive was in Failure and to back up al my info... or loose it 😢!!!! So I ran Bought the first hard drive I could find and made it my time machine. I took it to an apple Distributer ( I live In Guatemala and we do not have Apple Store) and they told me there was nothing I could do that I was going to have to buy a new hard drive so I got in Ebay and bought the Western Digital Blue Scorpio 1 TB too... But now I am just really scared to try and install LIon again... I don't really want to buy another hard drive... can someone help????? Thank You!!!!!
I can give you the end result. Days later I cpntacted Apple Advisor. Click on your support options and click on your machine. Eventually you'll be givewn the option recently installed Lion. From thee you can contact an advisor. Dop it. They're good. And they are human beings.
For me, after we discovered I actuall y HAD installed at least the Lion partition, and I had a backed up version of my drive on the Time Machine, we erased the Macintosh partition and then ran cmd-opt-p-r and let the chimes ring 3 times .... wala, all was good. Lion installed and I restored from my time machine, reformatted time machine backed up to it and I am good to go. Lion rocks (once it's installed)
Good luck. 🙂
I am sorry but Really I did not understand your response, I am not sure if your directed it to me or not... My mac is working Super with the Western Digital !tb Blue scorpio..... I am just scared to install Lion again because I feel like it will crash my HD again I do not wnat to buy another, it is really hard to getthings in Guatemala..... I am sad beacuse I was exited to have Lion lots of people are saying it is awsome..... I will would like to Guide you on what I think was the error that I made to crash my HD...
I was on Mac OS 10.6.7 when I tried to install Lion.... Here in Guatemala They said that could of been the problem... since I am no sotware specialist I really did not disscus this to the fullest... but I love studying every aspect in my computer and reading all the details everyone wrote I see I not the only one that had problems with installing Lion and having you HD crash.
Yesterday I put in my Snow Leopard installation disk and preformed a permission verfication and my computer had lots of them I went ahead to repaitr them and verified again and nothing came out... then I verified my Disk which seem a OK and that is it... I was about to install Lion again but I get to scared that my computer will crash again. I am not sure what to do to fill safe to install it... if anyone can help I would thank you with all my heart!!!! Thank you!!!
Failure to install lion. Hard drive irreparably damaged
