My 3 year old iMac won't boot, I can't get past the apple logo and spinning wheel. I have Applejack installed, and when I run disk repair it shows that I have Keys out of order (4, 26314). Then it tries to rebuild catalog B-tree and shows that the volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired.
Then underneath that is says -
*******FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED*******
Success! Either your disk had no errors, or it was repaired successfully.
But when I restart it, I just get the logo and spinning wheel. I've unplugged it, held down the power cord, replugged it back in, that doesn't work. I've reset PRAM - I'm lost at this point and don't know what to do next. And the when I run the disk check again, the exact same error message shows up and it gives me the same Success message again.
Is there anything else I can try?
I have upgraded to Lion, and have no installation disk. Can I put in my Snow Leopard Disk and reinstall Snow Leopard, then if I can get it working, reinstall Lion?
I read where I can purchase Disk Warrior, but I'm wondering if my harddrive is dying and maybe I should just buy a new internal hard drive for it instead of spending money on Disk Warrior if it doesn't work, then I've just thrown away a chunk of change. If you suggest a internal hard drive, can someone point me in the right direction to buy one at a good price.
Any help at all would really be appreciated. I started having problems yesterday, was finally able to get it to boot, then I had fan noise, so I rebooted, I couldn't get past the spinning wheel, but I don't have fan noise anymore.
I've unplugged the power source, rebooted numerous times, nothing is working. I do have it backed up with time machine, so I'm not worried about losing data.
Then underneath that is says -
*******FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED*******
Success! Either your disk had no errors, or it was repaired successfully.
But when I restart it, I just get the logo and spinning wheel. I've unplugged it, held down the power cord, replugged it back in, that doesn't work. I've reset PRAM - I'm lost at this point and don't know what to do next. And the when I run the disk check again, the exact same error message shows up and it gives me the same Success message again.
Is there anything else I can try?
I have upgraded to Lion, and have no installation disk. Can I put in my Snow Leopard Disk and reinstall Snow Leopard, then if I can get it working, reinstall Lion?
I read where I can purchase Disk Warrior, but I'm wondering if my harddrive is dying and maybe I should just buy a new internal hard drive for it instead of spending money on Disk Warrior if it doesn't work, then I've just thrown away a chunk of change. If you suggest a internal hard drive, can someone point me in the right direction to buy one at a good price.
Any help at all would really be appreciated. I started having problems yesterday, was finally able to get it to boot, then I had fan noise, so I rebooted, I couldn't get past the spinning wheel, but I don't have fan noise anymore.
I've unplugged the power source, rebooted numerous times, nothing is working. I do have it backed up with time machine, so I'm not worried about losing data.