Mar 17 2010
Tips to Solve Mac OS X Error: ‘The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt…’
In case your Mac OS computer won’t boot properly, running disk repair utility can help to correct the problem. Also, this utility can be used to check for file system inconsistencies, even if your Mac OS X computer boots just fine. This disk repair utility includes two tools- fsck and Disk Utility. Problems, which are unfixable by Disk Utility, are usually solved by command line utility- fsck. But if fsck also fails, you may fall in undesired situations of data loss and need of mac data recovery as the last resort is to perform erase and install.
Following is a scenario that illustrates the similar kind of problem, as stated above. Suppose you use Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and run Disk Utility. It reports some file system errors indicating that the file system is not in good state. At the end of error report, you encounter the below mentioned error messages:
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
Though you may be able to correct this issue for sometime, but the problem repeats.
Cause
Such problems are the direct consequence of events like, power interruption, forced restart, or unexpected shutdown.
Solution
In order to solve the depicted problem, you should do the following steps:
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Insert the Snow Leopard install disc and start the computer while holding the C key
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Select ‘Disk Utility’ from the ‘Utilities’ menu
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Perform Repair Disk steps for the corrupted drive
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Quit ‘Disk Utility’ once it finishes and start the computer as normal
Doing the above steps should resolve the issue. If these do not, you need to perform ‘Erase and Install’ and restore from the last available backup.
A Mac OS X user may find backup being unavailable or not in the state of restoring. In such situations, a data recovery mac utility can rescue all lost files and folders from a corrupted or reformatted disk. A Mac Data Recovery software is easy to install and operate.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is a useful solution designed to recover and safely restore lost or missing data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper, and FAT file system volumes. This Data Recovery Mac tool is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther.
