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Velauno
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2011-05-16, 09:02

I have an intel imac from 2 year ago. it was working fine but the start up disk was getting full.

last night it froze and now refuses to start

i can start it in target mode and it shows in my laptop's disk utility. but it will not mount.

Data Rescue 3 does not find any files with quick scan
Deep scan stalls and eventually DR3 becomes non-responsive
disc utility will not repair it

i have about 20K photos

my time machine back up disc stopped working about 3 or 4 months ago

what are my options here?

thanks for whatever advise you can offer

jaime
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alcimedes
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2011-05-16, 09:31

Have you tried putting in the disk it shipped with, then running disk utility off the CD/DVD?
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Velauno
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2011-05-16, 09:47

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Originally Posted by alcimedes View Post
Have you tried putting in the disk it shipped with, then running disk utility off the CD/DVD?
i did. The dialog says " OSX can;t be installed in this computer" restore or restart are the only options available. every menu item is grayed out.
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2011-05-16, 10:00

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2011-05-16, 10:46

You can try this:
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Boot off the OS X CD (reboot, hold C while booting).
The installer will load up, go to Utilities in the menu and run Terminal.
Type df and look for the drive that has your Mac system mounted---you'll have to unmount this. On my MacBook Pro, it was /dev/disk0s2.
Type umount /dev/disk0s2, replacing disk0s2 with whatever disk your OS lives on.
Type fsck_hfs -r /dev/disk0s2. If you umounted the wrong thing, it will complain that you can't repair a mounted drive. Go back and umount the right thing and repeat this step.

Just for fun, you might want to run another fsck_hfs on your disk (use the -f option because your drive is probably journaled). Hope this helps someone so they don't buy a program that's going to do pretty much what we did with fsck_hfs, and so they don't waste time searching for an answer to no avail. By the way, TechTool Deluxe (3.1.1) didn't find the Catalog problem for some reason (you'll have this on a CD if you have AppleCare), which is why I resorted to fsck.
Otherwise disk warrior can supposedly fix the issue.
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2011-05-16, 10:58

I've witnessed, on at least four occasions (including an older iMac of mine), DiskWarrior fix something no other approach ever could. I'm a believer. I think it's dipped in magic sauce or something.

Yes, it's got the ugliest, most dated/cheesy logo ever (hello, 1996!). But don't let that scare you away. It seems to bring the goods.
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