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A possible fix for 'overlapped extent allocation' errors
Authored by: TI bookuser on May 18, '03 12:53:23AM

I have a TI book G-4 867 running 10.2.6. The finder would not reboot ("blue screen of death"?) last evening. Apple Disk Utility on the Jaguar system disk showed MountCheck reports serious problems and 4 OEAs that it couldn't repair. Tried the Disk Repair on OS9 disk, that didn't work either. Disk Warrior 3.0 on a BootCD 0.5.3 emergency CD claimed to repair 2 OEAs. But Disk Warrior Preview of the hard drive showed all of my desktop files gone! Sweated profusely after choosing to accept the modified directory in Disk Warrior. Was ready to give up, and then decided to try Archive and Install option on 10.2 Jaguar system disk. Brought the Finder back, including the desktop files! Lesson may be to start with Archive and Install Jaguar off the installer disk, then worry about the OEAs later when you get your Finder back.



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