volume beyond repair

[IIO]

damn, i thought i had enough bad luck last week already, but last night i lost a partition in my storage system.

one volume of a SATA drive in my main G4 is fucked beyond repair, as it seems the catalog file and the b-tree files are crosslinked.

this is the second worst scenario what can happen to a volume, right after physical damages.

the reason is unclear, but could be linked to the bad blocks recently appeared on this drive (on another volume - all data could be saved)

hours of work are in front of me to redo a few things i had there which are needed in the future.

guess i am supposed to replace the whole drive asap before i loose more stuff.

[mrhappy]

Well THAT sucks! Another reminder to constantly back up!!

[MacTron]

one volume of a SATA drive in my main G4 is fucked beyond repair, as it seems the catalog file and the b-tree files are crosslinked.

It is really bad ...
But I have solved a similar issue, alternating several rescue utilities, including Norton, DiskWarrior, First Aid ...

[supernova777]

its easier to copy files to a new drive + wipe it
trust me

i suspect that something we have on the site causes the Btree error.. due to its copy protection

[mrhappy]

By any chance was that drive shared between OS9/ OSX??

[IIO]

sure, all my drives are used in both OS.

the combination of a nonreadable catalog file and a nonreadable catalog backup file means that there are literally no files anymore on the disk, just a lot of 0s and 1s of no meaning. almost like when a girl talks.

if it would contain data worth 25,000 USD you could do a forensic search (mainly by comparing strings) on that level we all know from apps like norton disk editor.

luckily it wasnt too serious stuff, but it is still a big mess, because i had to quickly make backups of the other partitions of that drive. scanning for bad blocks is still on the to do list and will take about 24 hours for 1.5 tb.

i hate spending money on things in general, but the drive will have to replaced with a new one and serve only as junk depot from now on.