TS1367 I have MacOS 10.5.8. It is not booting. It stops at the blue screen. I used the disc utility - verify disc. I get the following message - Invalid sibling link. Volume check failed. Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed. Please give a solution a

I have MacOS 10.5.8. It is not booting. It stops at the blue screen. I used the disc utility - verify disc. I get the following message - Invalid sibling link. Volume check failed. Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed. Please give a solution anybody?

Many times I tried to simply update from 10.5.8 without any success. It starts and after few minutes ...
I used many different install disks (I bought ofiicial release from Mac seller), so I think this is not a problem with wrong version or bad install disk. A few days ago I've got back my computer from Apple technical support and technician told me he had this same problem with system installation

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I tried first aid repeatedly with no luck. I tried the fsck repair suggested in one of the discussion forums "fsck -fy"
again, "volume check failed"
I'm looking to buy DiskWarrior as suggested, but am curious about another option I've read about. I found a macosxhints website http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070204093925888
that suggests running the install disk, clicking on terminal and unmounting the drive that the OS system "lives on". If I do this, will I lose the data already on my computer? The hint does not talk about how to remount the drive.
I am NOT computer savvy. Would this be getting in over my head? It sounds simple enough, but I don't want to do any irreversible damage. Should I just buy disk warrior, or would the safest bet be to buy an external hard drive and back up everything, then perform an erase an install with Tiger?
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Hi confused- I just fixed my invalid sibling link error on my HD. Stop using your HD!
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I do have the Tech Tool disk from the AppleCare... never looked inside it.
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I suppose I will be backing up the files on a DVD or CD anyway, so I might as well try to reinstall first.
Then if that fails, new computer.
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<sigh>
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I had to boot from the install disc today, and in trying to verify the disk I get this message:
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Invalid Key Length
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HELP!!!
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2) Only could start bootcamp
3) Tried resetting nvram
4) Could not start even in bootcamp
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Error: Live file system repair is not supported
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11) /dev/disk0
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13) 0:      GUID_partition_scheme *160.0 GB   disk0
14) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB   disk0s1
15) 2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            80.1 GB disk0s2
16) 3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
17) 4:       Microsoft Basic Data 50.0 GB    disk0s4
18) /dev/disk1
19) #: TYPE NAME SIZE       IDENTIFIER
20) 0:      GUID_partition_scheme *15.6 GB    disk1
21) 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB   disk1s1
22) 2:                  Apple_HFS BOOT                    14.8 GB    disk1s2
23) 3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
24) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ diskutil cs list
25) No CoreStorage logical volume groups found
26) Saeedehs-MacBook:~ saeedehmirbagheri$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
27) Password:
28) gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=160041885696; sectorsize=512; blocks=312581808
29) gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
30) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
31) gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 312581807
32) start       size index contents
33) 0          1 PMBR
34) 1          1 Pri GPT header
35) 2         32 Pri GPT table
36) 34          6
37) 40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
38) 409640 156394528      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
39) 156804168    1269544      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
40) 158073712   56853648
41) 214927360   97652736      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
42) 312580096       1679
43) 312581775         32         Sec GPT table
44) 312581807          1         Sec GPT header
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46) Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 19457/255/63 [312581808 sectors]
47) Signature: 0xAA55
48) Starting       Ending
49) #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start - size]
50) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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I booted from external USB. The diskutil list output is from OS x booting from the USB, which shows the following:
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/dev/disk0
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *160.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            80.1 GB    disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data                         50.0 GB    disk0s4
/dev/disk1
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *15.6 GB    disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS BOOT                    14.8 GB    disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s3
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Success!
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