Resolve Disk Errors w/o Reformat
I just found a bad sector on my new HD and I'd like to deal with it without backing everything up, reformatting, and copying everything back over.
All the drive apps I looked at could detect the error but they couldn't fix it and recommended reformatting. Anyone got a nice OS X app that can do this?
All the drive apps I looked at could detect the error but they couldn't fix it and recommended reformatting. Anyone got a nice OS X app that can do this?
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I haven't tried TechTool Deluxe, which is one reason I'm asking. I know that old school disk utilities could do this, so I'd expect that there is some modern tool that'll do the job.
One known good solution is the backup and reformat, but I'd like to avoid it if I can. I'm lucky I have my old drive and I haven't exceeded its capacity!
Also try booting single user (boot and hold down s)
df and get the name of the root volume and run
fsck-hfs -y /dev/disk1s10 (/dev/disk1s10 being the result from the df)
This can fix bad blocks and sector inaccuricies (sp?).
Dobby.
And fsck is brilliant. Not sure why I didn't think about command line tools. I'll try these soon and report my findings.
Still though, sounds like there are no GUI tools that can do this. Hmmm.