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Why do it the hard way?
Authored by: paulio on Oct 14, '03 07:29:30PM
Whoa! Wouldn't it just be easier to run Disk Warrior to fix the partition? Or am I missing something?

The down side of this could be that forcing a volume to mount could cause the OS to make a bad directory even worse. The next time it might not forcibly mount and it might not even be fixable with Disk Warrior.

I consider my data to be very valuable so I like turning on journaling to protect from this kind of problem in the first place.

See this hint (among others) to turn on journaling.

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Why do it the hard way?
Authored by: CaptDeuce on Oct 14, '03 11:51:22PM

Whoa! Wouldn't it just be easier to run Disk Warrior to fix the partition? Or am I missing something?

You missed something; the poster doesn't have any third party utilities.

Reminds me of the time I had a corrupted disk but had to wait four weeks for Alsoft to ship me a Disk Warrior upgrade CD.. Fortunately for me, I was able to boot off a second drive and mount the necessary partitions of the bad drive to access my data. In other words, not everybody has those nifty third party tools -- or the time or resources to acquire them -- in a crisis.

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Why do it the hard way?
Authored by: foobar104 on Oct 14, '03 11:55:18PM

You can get Disk Warrior via a five-minute download now. Check the web site.



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