Articles, tagged with "fsck", page 1
Error - The Disk Is Unreadable and Mac Data Recovery Solution
Sometimes, after an sudden shut-down of your Mac system, your Mac OS X based hard drive becomes unreadable leaving all your valuable data in it completely inaccessible. The reason behind such a problem can be the corruption of the file system, damage to t...
Recovering Linux system after using “fsck” on a mounted system
In the Linux operating system, the fsck is a useful utility that scans the file system for consistency and integrity. It is usually run automatically at the startup if the system detects that it is in an inconsistent state. It checks and repairs the file ...
Any instance of data loss in your LINUX hard drive-Solution available
Among the tech geeks, Linux operating system based computers are considered more robust and safe in terms of data security, as the Linux versions are more often updated with technology changes. Moreover, their frequent upgradation, keeps them comparativel...
How to Recover Data From a Dirty HFS+ File System?
Mac OS X operating system uses a special data structure to store, manage, and manipulate your valuable data. It is known as file system. Macintosh operating system supports the HFS (Hierarchical File System) series of file systems. HFS file system has var...
Improperly Changing Permission of External Mac Disk Can Cause Data Loss
Are you unable to access your external FireWire derive on Mac OS X operating system based computer? Cannot you mount the external hard drive after changing permissions to "no access" through "Get Info" window? This behavior of Mac OS X hard drive renders ...
Stop Sign Occurs While Starting Mac OS X Computer
Are you unable to boot your Mac OS X computer? Does your Mac machine display a stop sign during startup, after gray Macintosh screen is loaded with Apple logo? This behavior may occur due to missing or corrupt system files of your Mac OS X computer. At th...
Linux Hard Drive Recovery to Retrieve Your Valuable Data
Hard drive is the main storage device in any Linux computer. It stores all your significant data, applications, and Linux operating system. You can divide this non-volatile mass storage media into various volumes, for effective management of your signific...
Extent Allocation Issues and Data Loss in Mac OS X
In Mac OS X operating system, sometimes the same disk space might be allocated to two different files. This is called extent allocation problem. Though, it is quite rare situations, but still it happens. In such cases, any one of the affected Mac files ha...
Recovering corrupted Linux system after “fscking†a mounted system
In the Linux operating system, fsck is a useful utility that scans the file system for consistency and integrity and on finding errors repairs them. It usually runs automatically at the time of startup if the system detects that the file system is in an i...
‘Mount Error…’ After Power Down in RedHat Computer
Similar to all other operating systems, Linux can also become unbootable at next start after an unexpected power outage. The reason for such a behavior is that such events can directly affect the metadata of your root partition and damage it eventually. D...
Boot Camp Deleted Mac OS X Partition
Boot Camp tool is a comprehensive part of Apple's Leopard and Snow Leopard OS that assists Mac users in creating a partition and installing Windows on Intel-based Macintosh computers. Although it is designed for non-destructive repartitioning of hard disk...
Disk Utility and FSCK Fail To Boot Mac OS X
Is your Mac OS X based system unable to boot normally? Are you encountering a blank gray screen while booting your Mac OS X? Or do you view a broken folder icon/flashing question mark while booting your Mac OS X system? If your Mac OS X based system exhib...
Resolving Mac Invalid File Count Error
A Mac OS X volume can get corrupted for multitude of reasons. The first attempt of repairing a corrupted Mac OS X volume should always be to run 'Disk Utility'. But if this fails, you should try other Mac File Recovery solutions such as, running fsck or r...
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 uti...
Ext4 Root Partition Failure with ‘exception Emask 0×0 Sact…’ Errors
Linux partitions are basically of three types: swap, root, and home. The swap partition is used for Linux swap space, root partition for Linux and the installed applications, and home partitions for holding /home directory i.e. data. When it comes to data...