When bad things happen to good Mac's [OT]

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I'd ***highly*** recommend that if this happens again you run the
Apple Hardware Test since something may be wrong with your HD and if
that is so you should get a error code from the Apple Hardware Test
asap so Apple will repair it for you...hopefully your mac is still
under warranty or you've purchased a extended warranty

On 7/20/05, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> Had an OS X 10.3.9 disaster the other day. OS X was no longer able to
> boot.
> 
> The boot sequence would start,  the gear would spun, and then a dialog
> would  appear telling you in several languages to reboot the machine.
> What to do????
> 
> (1) Try Apple's disk repair utility
> [boot up off 10.3.0 install disk]
> 
> Apple's disk repair utility is known to be rather "weak".
> 
> The good news:
>         problem identified : "keys out of order"
> 
> which means some B-Tree records or associated records have been damaged.
> 
> The bad news:
>         Apple's disk repair was unable to correct the problem
> 
> (2) Boot up in single user mode and run fsck
> Well..., OSX is a flavor of UNIX [:-)]. Holding down Command-s
> immediately after the boot tone will get you to single user mode.
> 
> Running
> 
>         /sbin/fsck -f -y
> 
> is the right thing to do for an hfsplus file system with journaling
> enabled.
> 
> The good news:
>         fsck confirmed that the problem was indeed "keys out of order"
> 
> The bad news:
>         fsck was unable to correct the problem.
> 
> (3) Pause and consider options
> - reinstall
> reload the OS including all of the 10.3.x updates and all applications
> [hear a loud sucking sound...]
> 
> - update the OS to 10.4 and hope that the update process magically
> "fixes" things:
>         * deem highly unlikely
>         * MAC does not have a DVD drive.
>         DVD is the only media format shipped by Apple.
>         If you want OSX 10.4 on CD's, you need to send Apple $10, *and*
>         the purchased OS X 10.4 DVD, and a proof of purchase coupon.
>         [Apple is not very trusting, eh???]
> 
> - search the web to see what others have done to resolve "keys out of
> order problem".
>         * learn the problem is ubiquitous
>         * anecdotal evidence suggests "Disk Warrior" from Alsoft may
>         solve the problem.
> 
> (4) purchase copy of "Disk Warrior" 3.0.3.
> 
> (5) run Disk Warrior.
> 
>         ==> all is  well once more.
> 
> -Joseph
> 
> --
> joseph_sacco [at] comcast [dot] net
> 
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