After a failed disk utility fix my Macintosh hd is gone!

I tried to do a disk utility repair on my wifes white macbook and somehow my macintosh hd has vanished. I cannot even quit and restart unless I have the disk in, which is useless.....Need Help!

Well, I called applecare to see how much this was going to cost to diagnose and they said it was 49.00 per hour for a technician to try to diagnose over the phone. I hung up.....UGH! I had noticed on the front page of the support on apple.com there was a message about macbooks with 120Gb hard drives and a warranty program. This made me feel more confident my out of warranty hard drive had indeed crashed. I looked online at hard-drives at best buy, and found a 320GB for $59.00 This seemed like a decent gamble to me so I bought the new Hard drive. It was super easy to install and OSX started loading right up with no issues. Tomorrow I will try a trick I read about online about putting the old hard drive in the freezer to recover some media. Hopefully it works as my wife would like to get her pictures back. Thanks for all the help!

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I verify my disk and disk permissions every month or so, when I tried to verify the disk today I received the following message -
"Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD"
The alert goes on to recommend I restart using my installion disk - since I'm running Lion - I don't have an installation disk.
Details -
MacBook Pro Mid 2010
Shipped with Snow Leopard, upgraded to Lion - now running 10.7.2
I am backed up with Time Machine right up until today.
Details from Disk Utility
Verifying volume “Macintosh HD”
Checking file systemPerforming live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Checking catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume free block count
(It should be 23464181 instead of 23330172) ***
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
*** these numbers chang each time I attempt to verify.

Firstly, you should never bother with Verifying the drive. If you're going to do anything then repair it:
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion
Boot from your Lion Recovery HD. When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Upon completion select Restart from the Apple menu.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.

DISK UTILITY STOPPED REPAIRING MACINTOSH HD!

So initially, my mac just was stuck on the white screen with grey apple logo and the spinning wheel. It wouldn't move! So I held down the power button and turned it off, let it rest for good 8 hours, turned it back on and it was still the same! With the help of some online postings: command + control + p + r, I got to the Disk Utility page and I tried checking for any damage. For most part everything was"ok" or "clear"! Then I ran 'VERIFY DISK' for MACINTOSH HD and some problems occurred. I clicked on 'REPAIR DISK' as promted. It said "DISK UTILITY STOPPED REPAIRING MACINTOSH HD: Disk Utitlity can't repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.
I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW TO DO THAT ! I have not backed up a single thing on my mac!

If you want to preserve the data on the boot drive, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to fully boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot from the Recovery partition or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

In the far left hand column, Devices keeps disappearing. I can get it back by downloading iTunes again but disappears again after I run disk utility.

In the far left hand column, Devices keeps disappearing. I can get it back by downloading iTunes again but disappears again after I run disk utility.

With a Device plugged in - place your mouse cursor over DEVICES - you should see 'show' or 'hide'. Click on 'show'.
MJ

Unable to find HDD after erase with disk utility

Background id I had installed the Lion OS but then got into trouble with the "flashing question mark " at start up.
After using the recovery option, Lion OS was reinstalled and things were fine for a couple of days. Then the "flashing ?" returned
This time, it appeared the "Cmd R" did not work. So I browsed until I found out it is possible in the reinstallation, the recovery option was removed.
Ok, so then one of the discussion threads suggested to use the installer disc to boot up, use the disk utility to erase the HDD and install in my case Snow Leopard, and thereafter install the Lion OS.
I am stuck after clicking "erase". First there was an error message - "file system formatter failed' then I no longer can see the HDD in the disk utility.
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First Kernel Panic - failed Disk Utility volume repair - Help?

Hello!
Well, you've seen the subject. 2 nights ago, after a long day of iTunes, Photoshop, Final Cut Express, and Halo, my powerbook had it's first kernel panic. When? When I unplugged my Lexar JD Lightning flash drive. I had just copied about 200 MB of music onto it (to copy to my imac), and ejected it. Instant panic.
Well, after a reboot, I ran disk warrior on all of my external drives - 2 USB (Western Digital 120GB, Iomega Exite 80GB), my Seagate 400 GB combo drive (Firewire), with 2 volumes, and my 4G clickwheel iPod - well, it's FAT32, so it didn't check it. (For use copying files to our winbox)
It worked properly, until I tried to repair the Iomega drive. It froze. Force reboot.
So, now I ran disk utility on my internal drive. While it was running, Backup started, and everything locked up. Force reboot again.
It rebooted and loged in just fine, so I restarted to the OS X install DVD (the one that came with the Powerbook - 10.3.7). I ran disk utility on Macintosh HD (boot drive). Permissions verification showed a few "special permissions". Permissions repair worked just fine. Disk verification found issues, and repair didn't work. It gave the following error while running:
"Invalid leaf record count. Should be 1 instead of 302"
In big bold letters, repairs failed. Odd, it checked 2 volumes -
at the bottom, it said
"Repair attempted on 2 volumes: (green text) 1 HFS volume repaired. (next line, red) 1 volume could not be repaired.
Right above this, in the progress window, it stated:
"The volume Macintosh HD was repaired successfully"
So, what? Is the second volume the install DVD?
My powerbook is running just fine, so I ran backup again. (the .Mac backup application from Apple)
Then, I ran Tech Tool Deluxe (3.03) - included on the AppleCare CD that came with our Applecare subscription for my Powerbook. It found no issues at all.
So, i'm clueless. I have not noticed any other issues. At least, since the issue.
Before this happened, I've noticed a few glitches. One is that iTunes has slowed down, particularly when changing tracks. The other is the menu bar battery indicator - sometimes it disappears - rather, the indicator. The space that it occupies in the menu bar remains empty, until you click on it - then it shows up fine. What's odd is that it's only the text - it's otherwise just fine.
What happened before the issue began? Well, I installed a new PNY ram card back around Easter - if that's the culprit, shouldn't it have shown an issue before now? Second: Installs. A few widgets, and a couple of applications: OS 10.4.7 and all other updates Software Update had to offer, Toast 7.1 update, Comic Life's new Universal version (a minor update, actually), Microsoft Office update (heh, probably that), and the trial of Salling Clicker - it's quite cool - Macworld (Aug 06 - new issue) gave the right rating (5 mice!). I dont' run permission checks enough, I know.
A while back, (like 10 months ago) my Powerbook wouldn't go to sleep. It turned out that it was one particular USB 2.0 hub - disconnecting it solved the issue. Its not unlike how my Seagate FW drive will keep my iMac from booting properly every now and then.
So, here are the questions:
1. What is the "leaf record count"? Is it very critical? Is it part of the physical HDD, or the system?
2. Powerbook's running fine, and no other issues. Is it okay to run?
3. If I need to repair/reformat (eventually), will it be sooner or later?
4. This seems rather odd, and very intermittant. How do I find out what the issue is?
5. What is the second, mysterious volume? Macintosh HD is not partitioned. (Could it be Classic?)
6. if the SMART status of the internal drive reports just fine, could it be missing something?
Thanks,
Daniel
15" 1.67 Powerbook G4 (non-HiRes), Slot loading iMac DV SE Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1G RAM on PB, 384 MB iMac.

Techtool Deluxe you want to be running version 3.0.4. Version 3.0.3 is not compatible with 10.4 and may be causing the leaf count issues. Here's the link to get an updated Techtool Deluxe:
https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe/main?id=dl
My suggestion is to start to simplify everything here. Leave everything disconnected from the machine, and boot off the Disk Warrior 3.0.3 CD, and repair the internal drive first. Use the Option key to boot:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106178
Once you are able to do that, then see if you can repair the external drives.
RAM issues can crop up at anytime, and without warning. No test can detect all bad RAM, but once detected, then you know it is accurate.

Macbook Pro not booting after update. ''Disk Utility can't repair disk''. Help needed!

I have recently updated my macbook pro as I had some pending software updates. I left it to do the job over night and the next day I noticed it was not letting me sign in to my account session as usual.
I restarted the computer and ever since then when I boot it, it just shows the apple grey screen with a bar that loads to about a 3rd and then it turns off again. I have contacted apple but they were unable to help me with this.
So far I have tried to:
1. Re-install OS X 10.8 - but it says the disk is locked or OS X cannot be installed on Recovery HD.
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If anyone has any solution to this issue it would be much appreciated!

I just ran the Disk Utility, and cannot very disk. It gives me an error message;
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair
and when I run the repair, this is the message:
The volume GERRARD could not be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
Repair attempted on 1 volume
1 volume could not be repaired
Prior to running Disk Utility, I have already tried DiskWarrior, and could not repair my disk. Anyway I can fix this problem??? Formatting the disk would be my last option (though I am unsure if it will fix the problem). Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Meanwhile, I will continue to back up my file, and delete unused data and try to run it again.
Thank you all very much for any input.
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IPod classic won't connect to iTunes after erase in disk utility

I think my hard drive is failing on my 120gb classic and so I decided to wipe it and start from scratch. Admittedly I rushed into the process and wiped it in disk utility without doing much research. Now it doesn't show up in iTunes but it is showing up on my desktop. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Hi I had a similar issue with my 160gb Classic
Went through many things with Apple on the phone all to no avail.
Took it to the Genius Bar and managed to get it recognised by iTunes and then restore....but when i plugged it into my MBA or IMac it was not recognised by iTunes and just appeared on the desktop..again.
Given that i am using Yosemite and iTunes 12 and reinstalled iTunes, Apple answer was to do a reinstall on my MBA!
Reluctantly i did this and it worked!!!!!!!!
It was recognised by the ancient iTunes9 before updating to 12 again and it was still recognised....
Just got to reinstall all my music, photos, documents.....at least i have my retro 160Gb iPod Classic to load everything on....
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Disk Utility cannot repair Macintosh HD

Hey everyone,
My computer has been faulty for a while now, been running on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5.
I originally noticed the issue at hand when i tried to download maverick, but Macintosh HD was not a viable download location as it was already being used by Time Machine, I tried fiddling around with it but to no avail.
Eventually, I decided to verify if there was any problem with my HDD, and when I verified in Disk Utility, it said it needed repairing ("Disk Utility can't repair this disk...disk, and restore your backed up file"). It kept on telling me that the "volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired after 3 attempts"). Now I've just tried restarting my computer and I'm getting the notorious grey screen of death where I get the progress bar and a scroll, at the end of the bar, my MacBook Pro just switches off!
Luckily I have all my stuff backed up on a WD external HD, so my whole computer is backed up. Can anyone please resolve this for me? I have been through the step by step guides already available, but want to avoid erasing and re downloading if possible.
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Felix.

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Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
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DMG file after partitioning with Disk Utility

For the first time that I know of a file appeared after I partitioned a new external hard drive.
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decryptedFile.dmg
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It says it is located on the boot drive at:
/private/var/folders/dZ/(long string of alpha numeric)
(Note: Tried to post a screen shot here but I failed that task.)
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I don't recall ever working on Flash Player but I'll take your word.
Thanks for the help. I'll delete and forget.
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Failed Disk Utility Software Raid

My external RAID hasn't been mounting as easily as normal so I opened Disk Utility to repair disk or whatnot and it shows one drive as failed. Not sure what this means or how I should proceed. I'd be surprised if that drive is dead. What does the Rebuild button do? I have backed up all the data on the mirror, but am not sure how to proceed. I'd like to keep this info on the RAID if possible.
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From Disk Utility's Help:
A disk in a RAID set has failed or is missing
Disk Utility monitors the status of the disks in a RAID set. If you see a message that a disk is missing or has failed, there are several things you can try to solve the problem.
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External harddisk became extremely slow after reformat using disk utility

hello everyone~ let me try to describe as clear as possible!
to start with, i have 2 external harddisk:
hd(A)-120G, format in Mac OS Extended (journaled), it's and old harddisk and is nearly full;
hd(B)-200G, format in MS-DOS (ie. FAT32), it's a new harddisk with plenty of space.
what i wanted to do: make both hd(A) & hd(B) read & writable in mac & windows.
so, i tried to move all files in hd(A) to hd(B), hope to reformat the hd(A) to MS-DOS. but then i found out many big files can't be moved to hd(B) at all, and then i found out there's a 4G limit to the FAT32 format.
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so finally... i reformat the hd(B) into Mac OS Extended (journaled) using Disk Utility in OSX. i gave up the idea to make it usable in both mac & window.. i juz want the bigger harddisk to serve as a backup storage harddisk and i'll be happy with that already. so, after the format, i started moving files from hd(A) to hd(B)...and....well... the speed remained at 2MB per second.... which means, it takes like an hour to transfer juz 2G or so... i think the speed is very strange right?? maybe i messed it up making it different formats one time and another... and i dunno what to do with it now!!
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Hi aniDa, and a warm welcome to the forums!
You might try reformatting it but choose the Security Option button to Zero Data once.
Did you reboot everything?
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http://www.mediafour.com/

Failed Disk Utility Process

Has anyone ever received a FIRST AID FAILED Error message? If so what do you do to complete Disk Utility-Repair Permissions?
Here's an image of what the error process:
http://Y-OHTO-SGUK0Y.notlong.com/
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I have a Burning Question.
When burning from the Finder, the dialog box I get doesn't have the same options and the dialog box when using Disk Utility. Is this normal? Is there a way to have the options available in the Finder dialog box?? It would be convenient to have the Finder eject the disk after burning, but I can't seem to find a way to turn on that option.
Screen shot using Disk Utility::
Screen shot using the Finder::
Am I missing something? I can't find anything in Preferences to adjust the After Burning options while using the Finder to burn.
Can someone shed some light on this?? Thank you.

Are you saying then that the dialog boxes I get are normal (as shown in my screen shots)? And, those options are not available using the Finder? There is no way to change the preferences for the Finder burning method?
So, whatever options you have set in Disk Utility with carry over to the Finder automatically?
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My eMac has been "on the shelf" since November. I drowned my "new" (rebuilt) iMac's HD so have taken the e out for a rescue mission. It seemed exceptionally slow with a few other quirks so I did a Disk Utility on the Volume HD as well as the HD itself and got this:
Verifying volume “HD X10.4.11”
Checking HFS Plus volume.
Checking Extents Overflow file.
Checking Catalog file.
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking Catalog hierarchy.
Checking Extended Attributes file.
Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Volume Header needs minor repair
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If you have the Install Disc handy...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
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/sbin/fsck -fy
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(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214

After a failed disk utility fix my Macintosh hd is gone!

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