Alright. Last night, I shut my computer down as usual. Today, when I tried to boot it up, it went to the grey screen with the Apple logo and the spinning gear. After a minute or so, it went black and (I suppose) tried to boot again, because it replayed the startup noise and went back to the Apple and spinning gear.
I reset the NVRAM, which didn't help. (I know it reset because the speakers came back louder, ahaa...)
When I tried to boot after that, it would do the grey screen for a moment, then shut off completely. Attempting to boot into Safe Mode resulted in same - grey logo screen + gear for a minute, then total shut down.
Next, I booted from my Leopard install disk to try to run Disk Utility. At first it wouldn't let me click Repair Disk - only Verify Disk. When I tried to run Verify Disk it would cut out with an error for "Invalid node structure".
I fiddled around for a bit while still booted from the install disk, just trying to gather additional information, and quite unexpectedly the Repair Disk button showed as available in the Disk Utility after a while. So I tried clicking that, and it made a valiant attempt, but then errored out again - this time with "Invalid Volume File Count" error.
So I shut it down and booted from the root disk into single-user mode. When I tried to run a fsck, here is what it displays:
What does this mean, and is there any hope at all of fixing my computer without completely destroying all my files? I've heard good things about DiskWarrior, but it's $100 and if there's any other way to save it or force it to fix itself, I would love to know! Any advice at all would be appreciated.
Running on OS X 10.5.8 Leopard at the time. (I'm pretty sure it was 10.5.8 - I know it was 10.5.somethiiiing...)
I reset the NVRAM, which didn't help. (I know it reset because the speakers came back louder, ahaa...)
When I tried to boot after that, it would do the grey screen for a moment, then shut off completely. Attempting to boot into Safe Mode resulted in same - grey logo screen + gear for a minute, then total shut down.
Next, I booted from my Leopard install disk to try to run Disk Utility. At first it wouldn't let me click Repair Disk - only Verify Disk. When I tried to run Verify Disk it would cut out with an error for "Invalid node structure".
I fiddled around for a bit while still booted from the install disk, just trying to gather additional information, and quite unexpectedly the Repair Disk button showed as available in the Disk Utility after a while. So I tried clicking that, and it made a valiant attempt, but then errored out again - this time with "Invalid Volume File Count" error.
So I shut it down and booted from the root disk into single-user mode. When I tried to run a fsck, here is what it displays:
What does this mean, and is there any hope at all of fixing my computer without completely destroying all my files? I've heard good things about DiskWarrior, but it's $100 and if there's any other way to save it or force it to fix itself, I would love to know! Any advice at all would be appreciated.
Running on OS X 10.5.8 Leopard at the time. (I'm pretty sure it was 10.5.8 - I know it was 10.5.somethiiiing...)
Sorrow! Any chance I might be able to slave it to another Mac to attempt file recovery? Or is it probably extra-crispy toast? o__o;;