Disk Repair can't fix HDD, legal documents and freedom in jeopardy
My iMac is old, I won’t deny you that but it has always been in good shape.
Recently, during the pandemic, it stopped starting up, taking a loong time to load and eventually turning itself off. I did the hard reset by pressing the button in its back for 10 seconds, turned it on again and then it took me to “OS-X Disk Utilities” where I chose “Disk Repair”. Following quick instructions I found on the internet,
I was able to try to use the “First Aid” function with no success. I got the message “First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume. "Click done to continue”
Which makes me very sad since I have legal documents I depend on to defend myself against mexican authoritarian corruption. I wish to be able to take out the data with external drives, I hope it’s possible.
SYSTEM
- Model number: A1225
- 24" / 2.93GHz / 4GB / 640GB / 256MB
When I clicked on “info” from the faulty HDD this came up:
- Volume name —- Phoenix Arise
- Volume Type —- Physical Volume
- BSD device name —- disk0s2
- File System —- OS X Extended
- Connection —- SATA
- Device tree path —- IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/SATA@B/PRT0@0/PMP@0
- Writable —- No
- Is case-sensitive —- No
- File System UUID —- 69F55DE5…
- Volume Capacity —- 639,275,270,144
- Available Space —- 0
- Free Space —- 0
- Used Space —- 639,275,270,144
- Owners enabled —- No
- Is encrypted —- No
- Can be verified —- Yes
- Can be repaired —- Yes
- Bootable —- No
- Journaled —- No
- Disk Number —- 0
- Partition Number —- 2
- Media name —- Customer
- Media type —- Generic
- Ejectable —- No
- Solid state —- No
- Parent disks —- disk0
And the First Aid states the following:
- Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
- Checking extents overflow file.
- Checking catalog file.
- The volume Phoenix Arise could not be verified completely.
- File system check exit code is 8.
- Updating boot support partitions for the volume as
- File system verify or repair failed.
- Operation failed…
I guess it goes along saying that I will be endlessly grateful for any sort of help that you could give, since I really fear to lose my legal documents.
I know those types of things should always be backed up, and I do have some of it, but not all and it is very important.
I got involved as a witness of a crime and the criminal was famous and had me jailed with no legal reason, in México it’s easy to buy judges for like 7 grand. So, when it rains, it pours, but I know I can rescue something from this. Thanks again for reading and considering. Saludos!
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Don't touch the system until further instructions.
And you have no back-up????
Which exact model of iMac?
door mike
One thing I can point out is that the HDD shows as if it's absolutely full by "other" type of files. Zero KB for the any other, including "Apps" with Zero KB. Not sure if I could erase something to allow some room for it to run properly via terminal. Not an expert here, just saying. Thanks.
door LaernuSinatas
@aactech I'm having trouble figuring that out since I can't remember and I can't access it's specifications. I'm looking for the invoice. But it's a 24" screen. It's old.
EDIT: found it...
Serial number is: W89050GQ0TL
Model number is: A1225
24" / 2.93GHz / 4GB / 640GB / 256MB
..and when I open the image with the faulty hdd selected, with Repair Disk it opens an explorer window with a Recovery HD, and a folder called com.apple.recovery.boot not sure if that's a sign of a back-up.
door LaernuSinatas
There is a serial number printed on the stand of the iMac. You can use that on the everyMac Ultimate mac lookup here: https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup...
door Ben
@benjamen50 Thanks! Found it!
It's serial number is: W89050GQ0TL
It's model number is: A1225
24" / 2.93GHz / 4GB / 640GB / 256MB
door LaernuSinatas
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