I killed my Boot HD!!

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oilerch50oilerch50
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I was attempting to install Leopard on my dual G5 machine (Tiger 10.4.11). I had 22 gigs left on the HD and the OS box stated I needed 17 gigs. Leopard started to install then came a yellow triangle warning that Leopard could not be installed "9 GB avail on HD??" I clicked cancel. Then the computer would NOT BOOT!!! I booted from my Tiger disk and did an install on a second HD. I launched Disk Utilities and found that my original boot HD will not mount. I cannot get to it with Disk Utilities.



Error message: "Keys out of order. Rebuilding catalog B tree. The volume XXXXXX could not be repaired. Error. The underlying task reported error on exit.



Please help.

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    bobmarksdalebobmarksdale Posts: 744member
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    Originally Posted by oilerch50 View Post


    I was attempting to install Leopard on my dual G5 machine (Tiger 10.4.11). I had 22 gigs left on the HD and the OS box stated I needed 17 gigs. Leopard started to install then came a yellow triangle warning that Leopard could not be installed "9 GB avail on HD??" I clicked cancel. Then the computer would NOT BOOT!!! I booted from my Tiger disk and did an install on a second HD. I launched Disk Utilities and found that my original boot HD will not mount. I cannot get to it with Disk Utilities.



    Error message: "Keys out of order. Rebuilding catalog B tree. The volume XXXXXX could not be repaired. Error. The underlying task reported error on exit.



    Please help.



    Do you have it backed up anywhere? Anything extremely vital on it? Looks to me like a HD re-partition is needed.
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    oilerch50oilerch50 Posts: 32member
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    Do you have it backed up anywhere? Anything extremely vital on it? Looks to me like a HD re-partition is needed.



    Thanks. I just bought Disk Warrior. The box and several reviews state that it should fix the problem.



    To answer you question, no I did not back up anything. I makes me sick--photos. Hundreds of dollars of iTunes etc etc. I have learned my mistake. Never again....cannot wait to install Leopard and Time Machine.
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    bobmarksdalebobmarksdale Posts: 744member
    good luck... I had a similar painful experience ("the underlying task reported error on exit") and called AppleCare, but after about 30 minutes on the phone the guy told me I was pretty much screwed (a little more eloquently though). I only lost a little bit though, since my computer was only about a month old when it happened, but I hope you can save everything.
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