Nope. I can't find a reinitalize button in the utility myself, but reformatting the drive should do the trick.
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Disk Utility can't repair disk -- Help!
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Nope. I can't find a reinitalize button in the utility myself, but reformatting the drive should do the trick.
No, unmounting is not what you need to do. Reinitalizing means deleting the partition and creating a new one.
On the left pane in Disk Utility, you will see the Physical drive above and the volume (partition) below that.
Select the drive, and then Partition on the right pane.
!! Re-partitioning the drive will erase all your data !!
But in your case that is OK, so choose one partition and let DU do its work. By default, DU uses the GUID format for Intel-based Macs, you can check that is "Options". Hope that helps, after using DU a few times, it will be much easier, it really isn't so hard at all.
Did all of the above and this time the Disk Utility says that it was able to repair Macintosh HD successfully, while I was booted from the Carbon Copy Cloned hard drive.
So is that the end of the story? Is my Macintosh HD definitely all good now and I shouldn't have any more problems and I can delete the Carbon Copy Cloned hard drive? Or should I still take the step of erasing the internal hard drive, re-partitioning it, and then copying the Carbon Copy Cloned hard drive over to my internal drive?
If you copy the CCC back to the HD it could corrupt your OS again although unlikely, the faults where in the directory, now that it is repaired it seems to be OK, work on the machine for a couple of days and monitor Smart status once or twice a day.
If all is well, leave it that way.
I agree with JustPerry, it should be okay hopefully.
Id recommend setting CCC to update your external clone once a week though, its good backup practice and can be invaluble in the event of hard drive problems
Id recommend setting CCC to update your external clone once a week though, its good backup practice and can be invaluble in the event of hard drive problems
I would set it up with two schedules, once every week or so on the whole HD and once a day or shorter for the home folder.
You can setup CCC to have multiple schedules.
Depends all on personal preferences though.
"So is that the end of the story? Is my Macintosh HD definitely all good now and I shouldn't have any more problems and I can delete the Carbon Copy Cloned hard drive?"
OK -- if (when booted from the cloned drive) Disk Utility says the internal drive has been repaired, chances are it's going to be OK.
Suggestion -- boot from the cloned drive again, and use DU to "repair" the drive two or three more times. Even if it reports "OK" the first time, repeat this a couple times more.
If everything looks good, I suggest that you just leave the internal drive "as it is" for now.
BUT -- DON'T erase the cloned drive. Let this become your BACKUP. As you can see, it's far better to have around than a Time Machine backup. In a "moment of need" (as you have just had), the cloned backup saved your bacon. YOU COULDN'T DO THAT WITH A T.M. BACKUP (shouting intentional). Do you see the value of keeping that backup clone around?
Just use CCC to do an "incremental" backup every few days. An incremental backup fine tunes the clone so that only the changes you've made on the main drive are updated on the clone.
It will prove VERY useful in the future .
OK -- if (when booted from the cloned drive) Disk Utility says the internal drive has been repaired, chances are it's going to be OK.
Suggestion -- boot from the cloned drive again, and use DU to "repair" the drive two or three more times. Even if it reports "OK" the first time, repeat this a couple times more.
If everything looks good, I suggest that you just leave the internal drive "as it is" for now.
BUT -- DON'T erase the cloned drive. Let this become your BACKUP. As you can see, it's far better to have around than a Time Machine backup. In a "moment of need" (as you have just had), the cloned backup saved your bacon. YOU COULDN'T DO THAT WITH A T.M. BACKUP (shouting intentional). Do you see the value of keeping that backup clone around?
Just use CCC to do an "incremental" backup every few days. An incremental backup fine tunes the clone so that only the changes you've made on the main drive are updated on the clone.
It will prove VERY useful in the future .
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Man, thanks tons for advice for disk warrior, after my seagate goflex 3tb crashed, would not mount anymore, no disk in finder, etc., i contacted a disk recovery firm, but before i heard back from them i read your posting. And i'm copying files right now from my dead hard drive. Now of course i've lost at least 135 files, but out 100,000k plus file no biggie. All my financial files, doggie pix, family pix, taxes, scannned images, all everything, man thanks so much.
Man, thanks tons for advice for disk warrior, after my seagate goflex 3tb crashed, would not mount anymore, no disk in finder, etc., i contacted a disk recovery firm, but before i heard back from them i read your posting. And i'm copying files right now from my dead hard drive. Now of course i've lost at least 135 files, but out 100,000k plus file no biggie. All my financial files, doggie pix, family pix, taxes, scannned images, all everything, man thanks so much.