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alcimedes
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2006-08-02, 18:16

So this is the message the Disk Utility sees. Disk Warrior says it can repair it, but the drive will be empty.

I've got Data Rescue restoring items now as much as possible, but anyone know of another option to fix the Invalid B-tree node size error other than Disk Warrior?

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2006-08-02, 19:27

Nope.

Invalid B-tree node size is a real bitch.

Recover what you can, and reformat.

OR - run DW again, and hold down the Option key - a new trick I just heard about here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...60727082151123
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alcimedes
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2006-08-02, 20:49

Oh motherfuck.

I just wiped it five minutes before your post.
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2006-08-02, 20:59

Dammit - you were gonna be the guinea pig!

Can you figure out a way for muck up a b-tree node or two and try it again?
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alcimedes
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2006-08-02, 21:17

Yeah, I'll do what she did. Go to move the machine and unplug it in the middle of a read/write.

This is only the 3rd b-tree error I've seen, and the first that couldn't be repaired. Guess that's not terrible overall. I wonder since I haven't touched the drive since rebuilding the b-tree the first time if it can still find a way to fix it.

Only time will tell.

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What to Do If You Used Another Utility First
If you have used another utility before DiskWarrior and now have a directory that has no errors but is missing data, you can make DiskWarrior scavenge the directory to find the lost data if the other utility did not write over it. Hold down the Option key in step 6) Click the Rebuild button. The Rebuild button will change to Scavenge and when you press Scavenge, DiskWarrior will scavenge the directory.
Note: This is the same scavenge procedure DiskWarrior uses to recover your data when it finds directory errors, but it normally skips the scavenge procedure when the directory has no major errors. Therefore, you do not need to make DiskWarrior scavenge the directory except when DiskWarrior states “All file and folder data was easily located” in the DiskWarrior Report but you suspect that files and/or folders are still missing from the replacement directory.

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2006-08-03, 00:05

FYI, if you ran the first disk warrior process, the scavenge option no longer works. At least not for me.
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