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Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition?

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From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject	Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition?
Date	19 Aug 2016 15:19:41 GMT
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On 2016-08-19, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <GbednW3CTfa4xyvKnZ2dnUU7-cvNnZ2d@earthlink.com> 
>   Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>
>> My client is having problem with his USB2 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent Go 
>> from early 2010.
>
> Not surprising. It's 6yo and teh FreeAgent series was not especially
> good.
>
>> 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?
>
> The disk is so damaged it si being mounted read-only to try to prevent
> more damage.
>
> Copy the data off to a new drive and then get a hammer and a heavy nail
> and drive the nail through the drive and throw it away.

Personally I wouldn't throw away the drive. Copying the data off of it
and erasing it will map out any bad blocks so they are not used again.
With that said, replacing it with a drive double the size would be
rather cheap (~$50 on Amazon):

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/zdmvz32>

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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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