Time Machine - Locked after restore!

[IEatApples]

Well here's the story:

I used Drive Genius 2 (from DVD) to defrag my HDD … and I think it did …but in addition to that it apparently messed everything up so I couldn't boot from it = I had to do a restore from my Time Machine backup … and so I did … but then everything got messed up in terms of permissions, and after a restart - well, it didn't start … so, once again, same restore from Time Machine, and this time everything seems fine, except for the fact that my backup drive tells me that I have no access to it - I have no permission to even open it! And thus I can't use it as a backup or anything else, it's a 1TB useless disk!

Question: Is there any way to "regain" access to my HDD? Any way to have it continue as a backup drive without deleting the "old" backups stored on it now?

P.S.: Not sure if this is relevant, but I also have a small 60GB BootCamp partition with Vista o) on the 1TB backup drive.

 

[IEatApples]

Is it possible to login with more "access" then a usual administrator account?

I really need to fix this issue, I now have no backup disk!

+ Now I found out that another one of my HDDs (a 500GB with a small 45GB BootCamp - XP partition) are having the same problem.

Please help!

 

[IEatApples]

Hmm… no help?

Well, I guess I'll just have to delete everything & reformat the drives then.

… I can't even see what I'll be deleting/loosing… ah well, at least my main drive is okay now!

 

[IEatApples]

I called Apple and they gave me the solution :

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9035132&#9035132

I found a solution that worked.

In Terminal type the following sequence (obviously replace "Volumename with the name of your volume):

sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/Volumename

but if your hard drives name includes a [space] like this: "My HD", then you must write the command like this:

sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/firstname\ secondname
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/firstname\ secondname
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/firstname\ secondname
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/firstname\ secondname

or like in my example:

sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/My\ HD
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/My\ HD
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/My\ HD
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/My\ HD

It saved both my drives! THANK YOU APPLE!!!

 

[timdost]

Terminal not working

For my part it is still not working. I entered the code you said, Ieatapples, and then it delivered this message:



Tim-Dosts-MacBook:~ timdost$ sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/My\ Book sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/My\ Book sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/My\ Book sudo chmod -N /Volumes/My\ Book
chflags: sudo: No such file or directory
chflags: chown: No such file or directory
chflags: 0:80: No such file or directory
chflags: sudo: No such file or directory
chflags: chmod: No such file or directory
chflags: 775: No such file or directory
chflags: sudo: No such file or directory
chflags: chmod: No such file or directory
chflags: -N: No such file or directory

Do you know any solution for my problem? I messed everything up I think with migrating the accounts (with the same usernames) back and forth.

 

[gdeoliveira]

it works

it worked for me. thanks!!