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VincePro · #1 04-19-2005, 05:14 PM

Well guys,

My G5 Protools HD Audio Harddrive has disappeared for a few days now and I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions on what I should do!!! See how calm I'm being? (I do have most of the important sessions backed up)

Anyways here's what happens...upon bootup of my Mac 10.3.3, it will hang at the part where it says "WAITING FOR LOCAL DISKS".

After a minute or so, the OS will boot up completely and it will say "YOU HAVE INSERTED A DISK CONTAINING NO VOLUMES THAT MAC OSX CAN READ. TO CONTINUE WITH THE DISK INSERTED, CLICK IGNORE"

I have tried clicking on INITIALIZE and tried the "repair disk" option under First Aid but it will fail with the message "THE UNDERLYING TASK REPORTED FAILURE ON EXIT."

Anyways, this has happened before a few months ago and upon reboot the Audio Drive has magically returned. No such luck this time. Suggestions? Is this a corrupt file system or a bad hard drive? I'm more of a PC guy so I'm unsure how to go about diagnosing this situation. Any help would be highly appreciated! Oh yeah the hard drive is a 240 GB Deskstar.

Thanks.

Dutchmuzik · #2 04-19-2005, 05:45 PM

Do you have Diskwarrior available, sounds like a directory problem.

VincePro · #3 04-19-2005, 06:02 PM

Thanks for the advice! I don't have diskwarrior but is this my best solution? Any details would be appreciated!

Chief Technician · #4 04-19-2005, 06:16 PM

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I don't have diskwarrior but is this my best solution?

That and TechTool Pro are likely your only hope. I would go with DiskWarrior first. Both utilities are worth every penny.

VincePro · #5 04-20-2005, 04:09 PM

Well I purchased DiskWarrior online and ran it...It detected the missing hard drive and after clicking Rebuild, it scanned and found lots of the directories and folders. However, when I attempted to "Preview" the new rebuilt disk, I would get an error asking me to rerun the program. I tried this several times with the same result.

Before I try other options, does it make a difference whether or not you run Diskwarrior from inside the OS vs. from the bootup CDrom? Remember my system drive is fine, it's just the protools audio drive that's corrupt/damaged so I haven't had to run it from bootup. Just wondering if that makes a difference. I guess I will try some of the other programs you guys have suggested if nothing else with Diskwarrior works.

Dutchmuzik · #6 04-20-2005, 04:28 PM

Personally I have never run the preview, I just replace the directory but that's up to you. Since this is not your boot drive there should be no difference

VincePro · #7 04-20-2005, 04:54 PM

It didn't give me the option to not "Preview". The "Replace" button wasnt active...only the "Details" and "Preview."

Dutchmuzik · #8 04-20-2005, 05:01 PM

Try booting from Diskwarrior, can't hurt to try.

PTLance · #9 04-20-2005, 07:07 PM

When you use Disk Warrior it will not let you replace the directories from your startup disk. As dutchmusik says just boot from the disk warrior disc and then it will let you rebuild it. If you don't have the disk because you bought it online just boot from your apple CD and then use it.

Chief Technician · #10 04-20-2005, 07:35 PM

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If you don't have the disk because you bought it online just boot from your apple CD and then use it.

I don't think he'll be able to do that. He's using a G5, and when you boot from an Apple CD for OS X, you can only do what the CD will let you do. You can't navigate your hard drive and launch a program. There is, however, a way to make a bootable CD of your system drive, which I believe will then allow you to run DW from another hard disc. Search versiontracker.com for things such as bootable CD.