Yesterday, I decided I’d install Apple’s newest version of Mac OS X « Tiger » on an external drive for testing. So I boot on the Tiger DVD, and while I’m there, I decide to run « DiskUtility » on the internal drive of the iMac G5. A little preventive maintenance never hurts, right?
Apple’s Disk Utiilty found a problem it tried to fix but then suddenly quit. After which, my iMac wouldn’t boot any longer… GREAT!
Norton choked trying to fix the drive and probably damaged it some more. TechTool Pro then spent 2 hours trying to recover the disk structure, but could only recognize a third of the content on the disk.
As we speak, DiskWarrior is having a go at it… If it fails, I’m good for a complete reinstall of my System. 98% of my data is on external drives so no big worries there, although I will have lost 3 months of mail, which I should have backed-up but didn’t…
I hate computers !