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As explained above, permissions can't be repaired or verified on a normal TM volume. Often if I run a repair permissions on the main Leopard partition on the iMac's internal drive, somewhere during the process a message appears that the T M partition is not repairable but is being made available with a read only functionality. It should make no difference if the volume is mounted or unmounted, since they must be unmounted to do any disk repairs anyway.

#Disk warrior vs drive genius mac os

However, Verify Disk should always be available if the volume uses a supported volume scheme (like Mac OS Extended) & Repair Disk should also always be available for all volumes except the current startup disk. If you have ever seen them not grayed out, this would be abnormal. TM backups are not startup volumes (because among other reasons they have no root level system folders), so both of these options should always be grayed out for TM backup volumes unless there is also a separate installation of OS X on them. Sometimes I can do a Verify Disk, but it always fails.ĭisk Utility's permissions verify & repair options should only be available for mounted volumes (partitions) that are viable boot volumes IOW, that can be used as a startup disk. The repair permissions and repair disk options are grayed out. T M resides on a partition on an external disk.īy this, do you mean that the partition's name is the one that appears after "Name: " in the Time Machine system preference & the partition contains a root level folder named "Backups.backupdb"? Is this partition used for anything else besides TM backups?Īfter a restart it either doesn't show up or is not mounted as shown in Disk Utility. Restore tab of Disk Utility or SuperDuper! to copy TM backups. Note that you can't just drag & drop you need to use either the

Have you checked with WD? They've released some firmware updates in the last few months.Īnd MacJacks suggestion is a good one, too, if you have a spare disk. It's just the T M partition that is the problem.Īgain, it's possible there's a problem with that part of the disk. I can perform permissions repairs, DW repairs, etc on it with no problem. And 3 years is, as they say, a bit long in the tooth!Īnd the other partition on the disk is just fine. Many fail in just this way without any noise. There are no "click of death" sounds coming from the disk It's at least 3 years old, and although a disk failure is always a possibility, I'm leaning away from that. This is not likely, of course, but possible.

#Disk warrior vs drive genius install

How did you install 10.5.7? If via the normal Software Update, that wouldn't fix something that went wrong with an earlier "point" update, which the "combo" would.

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There is no blessed System Folder, you will be asked to choose a System Folder after replacing the directory.ĭoes anyone know what the problem might be causing T M to get corrupted, or at least how to get DW to perform the repair in a normal timeframe of just a few minutes?Īs I said, this has been going on for a while, at least 2 OS updates ago.

Critical values in the Volume Information were incorrect and were repaired.

Incorrect values in the Volume Information were repaired.

29 folders had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired.

10 folders had an incorrect item count that was repaired.

1 folder had a directory entry with an incorrect flag that was repaired.

9 files had an incorrect key that was repaired.

6 link files no longer point(s) to an original file and therefore cannot be repaired.

2 iNode(s) had a link count that was repaired.

Links, indexes and more have been repaired.

Errors, if any, in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node.

The latest repair report from DW is as follows. T M then works fine until the next time I have to restart the iMac again. I found one time that if I just let it go in background for up to 2 days, the process will finally complete, and continue on to repair the disk. After a short time a message appears in the DW window stating "speed reduced by lack of memory" The process hangs on step 5, locating directory data. Often if I run a repair permissions on the main Leopard partition on the iMac's internal drive, somewhere during the process a message appears that the T M partition is not repairable but is being made available with a read only functionality.ĭisk Warrior sees the partition and will begin the repair process. The other partition on the disk is usually fine. Sometimes I can do a Verify Disk, but it always fails.

After a restart it either doesn't show up or is not mounted as shown in Disk Utility. T M resides on a partition on an external disk. The past few months I have had a problem with Time Machine getting corrupted often, but not always, when I do a restart.