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DiskWarrior won't rebuild - all of the sudden - Help?

Hello,


I have rebuilt successfuly shortly after upgrading to Lion, but 'all of the sudden' cannot rebuild the iMac's internal, nor either of my two externals.


I get the same error each time I try:

'The Directory of the disk cannot be rebuilt.


There is not enough memory. Restart from the DiskWarrior disc and try rebuilding again. error cocde 2154.'


The iMac is 'maxed-out' with 4GB RAM, and never before had any problem running DW. Also, each attempt has been while booted from the DW DVD. I even tried running it on the two externals from my MacBook (the internal of which which DW does rebuild without issue) but still that same error message results.


One of my externals has a problem, to the point where OS X said it needed a reformat (both my externals are used for Time Machine - well were until recently). I want to run DW to see if DW can remedy the problem - whatever it is. 🙂


I updated DW to 4.4, but still no joy. My last successful rebuild was on Lion (10.7.1 I think) with DW 4.3.



Lord be with you and yours. 🙂


Thank You.

 iMac 2.8 GHz, 4GB;  MacBook 2.4 GHz, 4GB;, Mac OS X (10.7.2),  AEBS 802.11n;  AEBS 802.11g;  4GB iPod nano

Posted on Oct 22, 2011 3:43 PM

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Oct 22, 2011 8:44 PM in response to viper0066

viper0066 -


You must have DiskWarrior v 4.4 in order to run under Lion. That does not mean you can't use an earlier version of DW if you are running a copy while booted in an earlier version of OSX provided that the version of DW is supported by that earlier version of OSX. So, you could use DW 4.3 on a Lion startup drive provided that you are booted into Snow Leopard or older, if that makes sense. Also, as of a few days ago Alsoft still didn't have a bootable CD/DVD for Lion, apparently they are waiting for a copy of the code from Apple to do this. So you can't boot a computer requiring Lion from an existing DiskWarrior CD or DVD (yet).


I seem to remember a memory error similar to what you are getting when there is not enough room left on the drive for virtual memory while DW works. The larger the drive you are working on the more virtual memory space you need. Remember that DW operates in a fail safe mode, that is, it writes potential changes to unused space on the drive first so you can use the preview function before committing to the final writing of the repalcement directory. How much free space unused room do you have left on these drives, and how big are they? I'm not sure if the free space has to be contiguous, if so you might consider iDefrag or something similar. However, as to any drive that already has problems, do not try iDefrag, that well might make the problem worse:(


I hope these comments help. - Randy

Dec 16, 2011 12:22 PM in response to Randy Knowles

Hello Randy,


Thanks for the reply. The one external drive that prompts the error has ~200GB used and almost 800GB available. The other external I'm trying to rebuild has ~80GB used and over 900GB available. The internal drive of the iMac from which I am atempting the rebuilds has almost 70GB used and over 400GB available.


DW has since successfully rebuilt the internal drive (including just today) without issue, still not the two externals though.



Does any of this help?

Jun 30, 2014 5:58 PM in response to Stanley Horwitz

although i was talking about 4TB drives there have been 2TB drives also reported by 5 students in our Uni that can be linked to iCloud.,

After asking for more information i learned that they could not log back into the user accounts they recovered with out using iCloud account credentials linked to a copy of iMovie they where sharing between themselves., Their hard drives or partitions of their hard drives are irreversibly damaged and had to be replaced, they could not even reformat them,


Seagate confirmed that this behavior is identical to the warnings they had shared with users in the past when Maverick destroyed external SEAGATE hard drives.


As i mentioned before in the steps i took to recover data and only found myself with yet a second and third damaged hard drive, i was locked out of my user account and had to re install everything, but as soon as i logged into iCloud i lost more drives., So If iCloud is NOT responsible for damaged hard drives and loss of data i cant think of anything else that is, I can see the possibility of a virus on iCloud or corrupted data causing this., but i can't think of anything else besides this causing all the trouble.

Jul 3, 2014 1:23 PM in response to Stanley Horwitz

hey i figured out what the problem is, its that Israeli company Genio, they put a virus in their apps, i did a few runs with Virus barrier and removed tons of junk, i had to run it several times, and the hard drive is NOT damaged at all.


their virus attacks hard drives that are external with stored apps backed up, whats strange is the internal hard drives get corrupted because their viruses (all named genio something) will live arrive through various websites, possibly live on OIS apps backed up on iCloud, its hidden in the OS, ROOT, etc etc, their un installed also added more back doors then removed anything, the list of problems this company programmed their software to cause is beyond repair for many, its better to do a secure erase and re install, problem here is if the virus is stored on anything in the cloud the virus returns, should i call it a virus or what.....i wish apple put this company on a 5hit list so people know, i also found tons of threads where users experienced similar things.


So the iCloud thing could of been dropbox or any cloud back up

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