Re: Hard Drive Error During OSX Tiger Reinstall (Urgent)

In article <1152800558.155542.78290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jakob77@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I was running OSX Tiger on my Powerbook G4 and was experiencing some
performance issues. I was told a reinstall of Tiger might help. Using
my disk that I got from Mac I tried a reinstall (I archived the
existing system when prompted), which failed for whatever reason part
way through the process.

I did not have time to attempt this again at that time and therefore
asked the system to shut down.

Instead of now allowing me to reinstall, it says I do not have osx
v.10.3 which is necessary to install Tiger. Also the computer will not
reboot and I do not know how to access the archived system.

There are two different "Tiger"-DVDs: one is an upgrade and the other one
is a full version. Obviously you have only the upgrade. You could try to get a
copy of the full Tiger DVD.

[...]
The format of your hard drive has been messed up. Try the following...

Boot from your install disk and have Disk Utility (Utilitiesisk
Utility) repair your hard drive. Do this as many times as it takes
until no errors are reported.

Next, have Disk Utility Repair Permissions on your hard drive. Then try
to reinstall the system again.

If Disk Utility can not repair the errors you will need to reformat the
drive and install the system from scratch.

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I wrote back to www.macosx.com:

Thank you for your reply. The repair did not go through unfortunately.
i tried multiple times and every time i get the same message:

Incorrect block count for file system.log
(It should be 33 instead of 63)
Keys out of order
Rebuilding Catalog B-tree.
The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.

Error: the underlying task reported failure on exit

1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 volume could not be repaired

Apple's repair utility is not very capable in fixing problems. You may
try to get something like TechTool, DiskWarrior or DriveGenius.

Regards,
Christoph Gartmann

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