(I'm cross-posting this from a thread I started over on macworld forums)
Hi,
I've been attempting to recover precious files from (what I believe to be) a corrupt HFS+ partition on one of my hard drives, resulting from a RAID1 set becoming out of sync. I'm using DiskWarrior 4.2, booting from a DVD. I've gone through all the rebuilding steps, and DiskWarrior has returned a list of files which it claims to have repaired. I clicked 'Preview' to see what it came up with, and it beachballed for a while. Around half an hour later, the Preview button 'released'. Half an hour after that, the entire DiskWarrior window and its menu-bar disappeared, and I'm now staring at a blank, grey screen.
The drive with the damaged partition in question is still spinning, as is the DVD-ROM drive, although it's making 'stalling' sounds at regular intervals.
Is DiskWarrior actually attempting to display the preview window for me, or has it run out of memory and died? I was thinking of installing OS X on a separate hard drive, and running DiskWarrior from there, instead of from the DVD. Is it safe for me to kill the Mac and do this without further messing up my damaged partition?
Thanks for any ideas people might have.
Hi,
I've been attempting to recover precious files from (what I believe to be) a corrupt HFS+ partition on one of my hard drives, resulting from a RAID1 set becoming out of sync. I'm using DiskWarrior 4.2, booting from a DVD. I've gone through all the rebuilding steps, and DiskWarrior has returned a list of files which it claims to have repaired. I clicked 'Preview' to see what it came up with, and it beachballed for a while. Around half an hour later, the Preview button 'released'. Half an hour after that, the entire DiskWarrior window and its menu-bar disappeared, and I'm now staring at a blank, grey screen.
The drive with the damaged partition in question is still spinning, as is the DVD-ROM drive, although it's making 'stalling' sounds at regular intervals.
Is DiskWarrior actually attempting to display the preview window for me, or has it run out of memory and died? I was thinking of installing OS X on a separate hard drive, and running DiskWarrior from there, instead of from the DVD. Is it safe for me to kill the Mac and do this without further messing up my damaged partition?
Thanks for any ideas people might have.