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EdinNorway Author

Level 1

10 points

Attach sparsebundle fails - hdiutil not working for me

Thanks for reading this post. I've seen so many solutions that involve something like:

"hdiutil attach -readwrite -nomount -noverify -noautofsck /Volumes/Data/mbp.sparsebundle"

but I always get "hdiutil: attach failed - not recognized"

The 1.72 TB file resides on a 2nd generation Time Capsule. My laptop disk died and I believe the errors in the disk must have continued to the Time Machine backup. I have read so many posts across the web which all involve some form of the terminal command line above.

I can't mount the image. I can't open it in disk utilities but I can open the contents of the file and see the "bands". I don't wish to restore, only recover certain files.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks,

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 29, 2012 10:00 AM

33 replies

Pondini

Level 8

38,863 points

Oct 29, 2012 3:39 PM in response to joeblotnick

Great! 🙂

Glad it's sorted out.

Oct 29, 2012 3:39 PM in response to Pondini

This worked:

"try shutting down all Macs on your network (or at least disconnecting them from the network), then power the Time Capsule off for a few moments, then back on."

Oct 29, 2012 3:40 PM in response to Pondini

You nailed it. I actually came up with this fix on my own before now reading you suggestion -- you nailed it.

Thanks for your very helpful troubleshooting guide.

Attach sparsebundle fails - hdiutil not working for me