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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
|---|---|
| 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 07:18 +0000 |
| Organization | Miskatonic U |
| Message-ID | <slrnnrdcm3.5ri.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink) |
| References | <GbednW3CTfa4xyvKnZ2dnUU7-cvNnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
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. -- He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.
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Re: Disk Utility was unable to repair external USB2 HDD's Time Machine partition? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-08-18 21:23 -0500
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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
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