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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? |
| Date | 2016-08-19 15:13 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <e1om1hFliiuU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <GbednW3CTfa4xyvKnZ2dnUU7-cvNnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 2016-08-19, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote: > Hello. > > My client is having problem with his USB2 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent Go > from early 2010. It has 2 partitions: FAT32 and encrypted HFS (mostly > Time Machine's backups). After connecting and entering his valid > password successfully, it takes a minute to mount and then a message > that said "OS X can't repair the '...' You can still open or copy files > on the disk, but you can't save changes to files on the disk. Back up > the disk and reformat it as soon as you can." I ran Disk Utility with > their verifications. Both found issues with "Invalid sibling link" and > said to repair option. However, that repair option is greyed out. So, > is it not possible to fix it with free disk softwares except to reformat > it? Disk Utility will refuse to attempt to do repairs that may cause data loss. So if the volume is damaged that badly, you'll have to either reformat from scratch or use something like Disk Warrior to rebuild it. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-08-18 20:00 -0500
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-18 21:03 -0400
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-08-18 21:23 -0500
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-18 22:44 -0400
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-08-19 07:18 +0000
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-08-19 15:19 +0000
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-08-19 15:13 +0000
Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-11-08 21:19 -0600
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