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Boot drive corrupted?
I dropped a FCP reference movie onto my main boot drive en route to Compressor for an eventual DVD.
I didn’t realize how big the file was (37 GB), and it almost completely filled up my 160 GB boot drive on my G5 2 ghz DP. The drive started acting balky, so I immediately purged the drive of approx. 30 GBs.
The boot drive is now taking 10 times it’s ususal speed to load up, and the simplest commands are giving my a spinning beach ball.
I used Disc Utility a couple times and that hasn’t helped. I also checked out the drive using Disc Warrior, and it’s shows hardly any files out of order.
Any idea what problems I’ve caused, and how to solve them?
I have all my media on a 1 TB SATA enclosure.
Thanks much.
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Did you rebuild the drive with Disc Warrior or just Graph the drive?
If you don’t get any other suggestions, you might want to restore the OS – something may have been corrupted.
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Neil Ryan
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I just graphed it…and the results were only 2 % of the files out of order. So I didn’t rebuild.
Do you think that would be a good idea? -
absolutely!
could be one tiny thing that makes the difference.report back …
Neil.
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I’ll take your advise & rebuild the boot drive when I get to my edit station tomorrow.
One other question – when you suggested “restoring” the OS….is that the same as a “clean install?”
Thanks.
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Ken, I forget the wording on the install options.
There’s one which wipes the disk and loads the software (which I think is the Clean Install) and another
which Restores the OS for when your system gets flaky and you want to clean it up. I’m sure they use the term ‘Restore’ there, and they specify that no apps or documents are deleted, which is how you want it – each option comes with an explanation.
Take a look, but don’t hit Continue’ until you’re 100% sure.Neil.
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What I would do is to format a firewire drive, then use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your system drive to that. Re-boot from the FW drive, then format your internal system drive, and use CCC to clone the contents of the FW drive back. Re-boot from your internal drive.
That will take a couple of hours (at least!), but it will be faster than reinstalling both your OS & all of your applications, plus setting up your email, finding your browser links, etc. If you clone your drive with CCC, all of this stuff will already be set up.
BTW, it’s a good idea to use CCC on a regular basis for system backups.
Arnie
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DiscWarrior was unable to successfully rebuild the boot drive directory (stopped due to error #2175)- so I’m guess I have a pretty serious problem. I have used CCC in the past when I migrated from Panther and I have a FW drive set up for this.
If I clone my damaged drive – aren’t I cloning whatever problem I have in the first place?
Thanks for all the help.
Ken
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You booted from the DW disk, correct? It could be a serious problem if DW couldn’t fix it. I don’t know if cloning would clone the problem or not, so you might want to play it safe & start from scratch.
Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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I can boot up from the main boot drive – but it literally takes 15 minutes.
Disc Warrior installed on one of my FW drives – I tried 3 times to rebuild the boot drive directory – w/o success.
Do you suppose it’s a hardware type of issue….has my boot drive failed?
(It’s always something with computers).
Thanks much for the sagely advice – and – any idea what my next step should be?
Ken
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I used Disc Warrior to solve the hard drive problem.
With Alsop’s tech support help, I used my printer to make a hard copy of the files that were overlapping, and preventing me from re-building my directory.
I then one-by-one removed those files from the boot drive.
I was then able to re-build the directory.
Problem solved.
Thanks to all who offered help.
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