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[cherry]

You know what I could really use right now?* Computer trouble.

I am attempting to take advantage of my friends' knowledge! I ran a standard permissions repair and a disk verification on my computer. Disk verification failed and shouted at me in angry red letters.

Invalid volume file count
Invalid volume directory count

The volume Macintosh HD needs to be repaired

Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed

I don't suppose anyone has any suggestions? Other than 'choose between bread/lettuce and computers?' I am so hoping that I am not pooched.

* (It's not like I'm already concerned I may have started stress-vomiting or anything.)

AHHHHHH, why aren't any of my external hard drives loading?

Comments

[sprat.livejournal.com]

Back up first, if you can. If none of your external drives are mounting, can you email yourself important docs and burn stuff to cds?

After you've done that, follow the steps here in order (try the disk utility on the install disc first if you can; if you don't have the install disc or can't boot to it or the repair still fails there, try starting in single user mode and running fsck):

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417

Sometimes running the repair when you aren't booted to the volume works even if the first repair fails. But if ALL these steps fail, yeah, you are likely going to need to try an erase and install (NOT an archive and install). And if that fails, you'll need to replace the harddrive in the computer itself. I can help you with that, so email me before you go to a repair place.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Back up all your shit and run the repair from a boot disk, if at all possible. This is actually not an epic fail situation -- I've had this happen many times and Disk Utility can usually handle it just fine.