DiskWarrior has saved many hard drives for me; you might try that; I have been through a couple of power cords with my lacie, but as you say, the message you are getting seems like a different problem. Rita Muncie No Left Turn www.noleftturn.biz 203-981-6588 (cell) 203-838-4033 On Feb 25, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Tom Adams ~ Reelife Productions & Folktography wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Hello, > > looks like my 1TB lacie backup "extreme disk" has finally decided to play with my sanity. I tried runnin' apple's disk utility to no avail. The discs icon shows up in the left panel but will not mount- here are the messages I got: > ========= > Verify and Repair volume “Time Machine _BU” > Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume. > Detected a case-sensitive catalog. > Checking Extents Overflow file. > Invalid leaf record count > (It should be 4500 instead of 4505) > Checking Catalog file. > > >>Disk Utility stopped repairing “Time Machine _BU” because the following error was encountered: > Filesystem verify or repair failed. > > (It should be 4500 instead of 4505) > Checking Catalog file. > Invalid node structure > Volume check failed. > Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed. > ============= > > anyone have any insight or suggestions about what I should do next. I know that Lacie has had problems with the "extreme disks" power cords not giving the units enough juice but this doesn't seem related at all. > > trying not to wig out too much...but I do happen to have a A LOT of important stuff on this drive. Help? > > > > Regards, > > Tom Adams > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Videographer, Director, Editor: www.ReelifeProductions.com > Photography Prints & Products: www.FolktographybyTom.com > Portal: web.me.com/ReelifeProductions > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > www.facebook.com/Reelife > www.facebook.com/Folkography > www.facebook.com/tomadams4 > www.twitter.com/Reelife_Tom > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > (413) 575-9707 > Williamsburg, MA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20100226/03a0b349/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ritacrop.gif Type: image/gif Size: 566 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20100226/03a0b349/attachment-0001.gif