How to repair with techtool deluxe ?

Hi friends my techtool software detected a failure in the volume structure and it says can be fixed but I do not know how.... help

You don't use TT Deluxe to repair disks. In fact you shouldn't use it at all. Use Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.) 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 click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger) and/or TechTool Pro (4.5.2 for Tiger) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

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Repairing volume with techtool deluxe

My MBP is on the protection plan which means I have techtool deluxe. The software has found an error in the volume. The directions for the software state to restart the mac from the appple menu and hold down the C key while starting the MBP with the cd in the drive. This supposedly is going to start the MBP from the cd and start techtool deluxe's repair programs. My problem is that when I restart holding the C key my MBP just starts up normally. Am I not doing it correctly? Does C key mean the apple/cmd key? Does C key mean the ctrl key?
Has anybody ever used techtool deluxe to repair a bad volume?

Do not use TT Deluxe to repair your drive. It is not compatible with Intel Macs. Instead use Disk Utility. Do the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. 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 click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Problem with techtool deluxe

Hello all,
I am a new IMAC owner and have a question regarding techtool deluxe. I had no problems running it, but when it came to "surface scan" it was automatically skipped. I ran it again and the same thing occured. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong?
Imac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2GHz Intel Core 2; 1 GB RAM;

Have you checked the list of items to be scanned and made sure "surface scan" was selected?
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TechTool Deluxe (applecare CD) unmounted my hard drive

I'll just detail what happened, any and all suggestions would be helpful.
1. Ran Permission repair utility: everything checked out
2. Ran Disk repair utility: Catalog error found
3. Rebooted mac with techtool deluxe cd.
4. Enabled all tests (including volume structure test)
5. All tests check out fine save for volume structure: which is what I expected
6. prompted me to "repair" drive, clicked "ok"
7. After repair successfully completed rebooted mac
8. Kernel Panic upon reboot
9. After multiple reboots, restarted from Tiger install disk.
10. According to Tiger install disk, main hard drive is "unmounted" and un-journaled
11. Re-started again from TechTool Deluxe Cd
12. Ran Tests again (this time only Volume Structure) Passed
TechTool completely recognizes my hard drive, and everything on it (correct amount of space used etc. While OSX says I have nothing on it, and refuses to boot normally without the aid of a CD. What are my options at this point?

Hi Jason, and a Warm Welcome to the Power Mac G5 Forum!
There is some(!) discussion of this problem here
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=120264&start=0&tstart=0
And some stable door here
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301269
You could try (if you haven't already) using the Disk Utility on the 10.4 retail disk to Mount and Repair the boot drive
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1018.html
You may be able to use Firewire TDM to access the drive, if you have another Mac
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
and try Disk Utility from there - and maybe rescue your data, if you need to.
I haven't read it all the way through... but the early posts seem to have ended in an Erase and Install of OS X; Disk Warrior did not appear to help - but is a useful Utility to have, so may be worth a try
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
and highly-recommended by many in this Forum.
You can download and burn a current TechTool CD here
https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe/main?id=dl
- if you have AppleCare, of course.
Good Luck.

TechTool Deluxe 3.0.3 & Mac OS 10.4

I ran TechTool Deluxe 3.0.3 (came as part of AppleCare) on my Mac OS 10.4.3 Christmas Day. Now my Macintosh will not restart.
I just found out within the last hour that this was a BAD move: Only TechTool Deluxe 3.0.4 and higher should be run on Mac OS 10.4!
http://www.jmu.edu/computing/mac/tigertechtool.shtml
http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/macwoburn/2005-July/001333.html
I'm thinking that THIS is why my computer now fails to restart, reguardless of whatever messages the system is throwing my way.
Please advise!

Hi, Jrsy - Without removing the onus from the user completely--because it is ultimately the user's responsibility to be aware of the usefulness of any utilities h/s may choose to implement--I think that that is something about which AppleCare (Apple Support) should also be proactive. If AppleCare knowingly supplies retailers with soon-to-be-outdated (or already outdated) copies of a disk repair utility (and this is also symptomatic MicroMat's typically slow response to any Mac OS X update, not simply the move to 10.4 from 10.3, and not simply with TechTool Deluxe, but with TechTool Pro, as well), then there should be a warning included in every retail AppleCare package which apprises users of the likelihood of irreparable directory damage when using incompatible or obsolete "repair" utilities on their machines.
(It should be said that there is a KBase article [linked above] with a creation date of 1 April about this issue. ...Not that most people are particularly diligent about searching the Knowledge Base either before or after issues arise....)
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Volume structure failed error #2 techtool deluxe

Hello,
can the volume structure be repaired if techtool deluxe cant repair it.I am having major issues here since the latest security update its taken me this long just to startup from TT disc

Hi
I believe you will need TechTool Pro, as I don't know if Deluxe can do it or not, or Alsoft's DiskWarrior to repair your disk if Disk Utility can't.
Steve

Is AppleCare's TechTool Deluxe 3.1.2 ready for Snow Leopard?

I have another year left on my AppleCare and it came with TechTool Deluxe 3.1.2. I checked the Micromat site and there is no other update.
Does anyone know if it is compatible with Snow Leopard?
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It seems the current techtool deluxe apple offer for download is also incompatible with more recent models of MackBook Pro. WHen I went to download the Techtool Deluxe from https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe/main?id=dl I get this message:
+Note: The MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) *are not fully compatible with this version of TechTool Deluxe*. The MacBook Air is fully compatible with this version of TechTool Deluxe when used with the MacBook Air SuperDrive. Please check back later for a new version of TechTool Deluxe+
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Data Recovery AFTER TechTool Deluxe "Repair" ?

Hello,
I have a PB from Fall 2005 (1.5 Ghz, 512 Ram, superdrive, 80 GB) running 10.4. Recently, performance really started to lag, so I began diligent monitoring and ordered an external HD to perform a more comprehensive backup. For the last week, although SMART status was verified on the internal HD, I've been running on a bootable external drive (that was too full to perform a full backup of the current system). When the new external drive arrived yesterday, I installed 10.4 onto a fresh partition and prepared to copy all my files over from the internal drive. Of course, in the midst of this process, but before I could begin the file transfer, the internal drive decided to die and list SMART status as failed. From previous TechTool and other diagnoses, I believe the issue was just a horribly corrupted directory rather than any real physical damage (despite being forced to use numerous hard shut downs due to a stalled, all-but-frozen system in the recent past).
Now, here's the crux of my question: I ran TechTool Deluxe (the version that is packaged with Apple Care) and again it reported a bad directory. I had to safe boot on the external drive to get the computer to complete log in, otherwise it stales as it "searches for local drives." So the drive was not mounting, but it was recognized by both Disk Utility and Tech Tool. Feeling that it was my only option, I decided to go ahead and let Tech Tool repair the volume structure. Tech Tool was "successful" but now I am left with a hard drive that mounts but only shows my applications and library folders, along with a folder full of gibberish index files. No system folder, no users folder.
Is there a way to step back from this repair? Apple Support suggested trying to use Disk Utility again to verify the disk, but I'm highly dubious. I've heard of Alsoft DiskWarrior and ProSoft's Data Rescue II--but I don't know if either are something that will work after-the-fact now that Tech Tool has done its damage. I also talked to Drive Savers and they're quoting $500-2400, with $1600+ the cost of anything approximating full recovery.
Any suggestions on methods, preferred vendors, etc? I've backed up sporadically and have fresh copies of most of my key documents, and 75-90% of my music, but I'd lose all my photos and my crucial contacts, emails, and calendars.
I've done some searches and found slightly similar issues to my particular problem (ie http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1150247?).
I'll be monitoring this closely if I left any details out that would help in providing a recommendation.

Hi,
Thanks for your comments. I actually have not been able to boot from the "repaired" drive. It no longer mounts and disk utility reports it had a "fatal hardware error." I can still mount fine from either of my two external drives. Here's the current update. I downloaded the demo of Data Rescue II from Prosoft and am letting it performa thorough scan of my hard drive. It was about 2 hours from completion after 10 hours of scanning when I left for work this morning. If it turns up anything, I'll go ahead and buy the full version. If not, unless this board turns up anything else, yes, it looks like DriveSavers (or a similar alternative?).

How to repair corrupted xp files with the Toshiba recovery dvd pkg

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I have recently upgraded my PC (used to have 98SE).
Since then, I cannot get Photo Deluxe 3.1 to work
I *DO NOT* want Photoshop - it's WAY WAY WAY too complicated for me.
Photo Deluxe 3.1 was great, did everything I wanted it to do, and was so simple that even George W. Bush could work it.
The features that I used are :
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* EASY cropping of photos
* Wash out of photos (for back inlays of CD mixes - the back inlay was a washed out version of the front inlay, with text over the top)
* BASIC, easy to do brightness & contrast controls
* EXPORT - so I can export any image to almost any format, particularly JPG
Ideally, I'd like to continue to use Photo Deluxe 3.1
If I REALLY must, I want a SIMPLE Photo Editor (IE, NOT Photoshop) that will do the things I did with Photo Deluxe.

For the tasks Jangly Mark describes, GIMP is certainly easy. It would take less than 10 minutes to discover/learn how to do these tasks in GIMP.
The only reason why GIMP may appear to be difficult to us is because we are accustomed to Photoshop's different controls and methods.
Here are some GIMP quick tips:
Cropping:
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Tools Menu->Color Tools->Levels
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast:
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Techtool Deluxe don't works with Mac OS X 10.7.x Lion...

Hello,
i have installed Mac OS X Lion on my iMac from Late 2009 and buy it with Apple Care Protection here in Germany.
The Progam Techtool Pro does not work under Lion. Installing succesfull and display when starting an Error-Message (Techtool Deluxe not tested under Lion)
Where have any question for recommend Update. The Techtool Pro works only with Mac OS X 10.4.x too 10.6.x ...?
Thanks for Questions.
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My new Mini comes with the internal power supply and the cord that comes with it is too short. Is it safe to use an extension cord with it?
Also, is there anyway to turn off the start-up chime? I have headphones plugged into it and with my older Mini as long as I did that I didn't hear the chimes.
Last, what happened to the up and down arrows to navigate? I usually use the mouse scroll wheel but my mother can't because of carpal tunnel (she got my old Mini).
You can use an extension cord however personally I would not. I would however recommend getting a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Source.) You can find them at your local office supply store, Costco, Best Buy or local computer store. A much safer solution and it offers an additional layer of protection for your computer investment.
Regarding the start up chime, there are utilities for turning it off. You can find them by doing a Google Search however once again I'd recommend against it because the chime is an important part of the startup sequence. That being said why are you turning off the computer, please read your owners manual! If you insist on shutting down your computer rather than letting it sleep then simply turn down the sound prior to shutting it down.
In the current version of OS X Lion Apple has removed the scroll bars, You can turn them back on though in System Preferences - General - Show Scroll Bars. Lion is new and it's different, some things you may like some you may not. I would recommend reading MacWorlds review on it at:
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Mm issue:-how to deal with gds sent for repairs and again issued for consm

The main problem is that if something come for repairing it increase the stock for one period and decrease the R and M for that period. And when after 4 months when goods are received after repairing it disturbs the R and M expense in another period. And this also disturbs the valuation of the material.
Any one can suggest how to deal with the repairs done to materials without affecting the valuation price of original material.
my points is how everyone in india is dealing with goods sent for repairs outside their company.
what all entries are generated from first receipt of goods in company till good sent for consumption after received from vendor who repaired the goods.
all a/c and mm entries

what we have decided that we would have 2 valuation type
1. sap-domestic :- normal stock
2. sap-use/repair :- repaired items.
All the goods should be received using sap-domestic valuation. from here goods are sent to shop floor. when ever repair is required goods are received in stock thru sap-use-repair at value zero and not moving price specific to sap-use/repair valuation.
so till goods that require repair and that already repaired are kept in stock, they are kept at 2 different values one is zero and other is moving price specific to valuation type sap-use/repair.
now goods are sent for repair at zero value but when these goods are received after repair then value of repair will affect the moving price of valution sap-use/rep.
so this will solve our problem that goods should be received from shop floor to stock for repair at value zero.
how can we achieve this that goods received from shop floor to stock for repair is received at zero value and not moving price specific to valuation sap-use/rep. where we will have do setting in this vaution type or wherever required.
pls send some suggestions on it

Techtool deluxe volume repair run time?

I have a iMac G4. After running a systems check I got the
BAD message that my "volume McIntosh HD needs to be repaired". So I am running techtool deluxe. I have a message box that says it is repairing the volume Macintosh HD. The issue is that the program has been running for 7 days. I contacted Micromat and they said as long as it is
still progressing(it is) let it continue to run. I have
calculated that at its current snails pace it will take an
additional 30+ days to finish. Suggestions please. I have
a horrible fear there will be either a power failure or this
will have been a complete waste of time.

If it is progressing, you should let it run. (But I'd be ordering a new hard drive while I was waiting...)

I have an Apple MacBook on which Lion 10.7, plus all updates, are successfully installed. Can you tell me if TechTool Deluxe, normally supplied with Apple here has been now tested and found to run successfully? I have run the program to check a problem

I have an Apple MacBook on which Lion 10.7, plus all updates, are successfully installed.
Can you tell me if TechTool Deluxe, normally supplied with Apple here has been now tested and found to run successfully?
I have run the program to check a problem that I'm having. The particularly with video, and also volume structure. TEchTool Delux reports a failure for both of these components.
I am wondering if this is realistic or not, given the start-up screen for TechTool Delux mentions on start-up that it has yet to be tested fully with Lion?
With thanks, Ron.

Yes, I understand, however, he Macbook is out of its Applecare, but the TechTool it still on the machine. Does that entitle me to an upgrade in TechTool?
I suspect not, hoever, seeing I am running Lion, I am not sure at all? If you can answer this question it will help as then Imight be able to solve the problem I'm having.
Best regards, Ron

How do I retrieve data from a HD that cannot be repaired with utility disk?

Hi,
I have a macbook pro 15 inch mid 2010. It has 4gb of ram and 500gb of storage. I recently upgraded to Mavericks OSX10.9,4.
First of all, when turning on my mac the screen just loads forever, hence it does not pick up the HD. It also displayed the circle with a line through icon once.
Upon noticing this, I tried to repair the disk but it said it was unable to. The other disks are ok but the MAC HD says it stopped repairing when I attempted to repair it.
Using single user mode (command + s): I tried this, but it continued to says the same i/o error code:
disk0s2: i/o error.n
0 [level 3] [facility com.apple.system.fs] [errtype IO] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 57547320] [LBlkNum 67604]
0 [level 3] [facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode root_device] {mountPt /] [Path /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64]
And it kept going and going.
I'm afraid to try anything else. I have no Mac back up in time machine (I know) but I have an external. Is it possible to retrieve the data by wiping the external and using the utility disk to transfer to HD to the external? Is that what people call cloning? Is this physical damage/can i still recover the data/use it and section off the damaged parts and use the spare space?
Help would be appreciated!

i/o errors generally mean that a part of the disk cannot be read. That can prevent the disk mounting or prevent the entire disk being read after the error.
Disk Utility is not great at addressing issues like this & data recovery specialists are the safest (and most expensive) option for recovering data from a disk in this state.
As others have said it's critical to avoid any use of the disk since if it's a mechanical fault it could seize or finally give up functioning.
If you are intent on recovering 'on your own & on the cheap' you could look at ddrescue – it clones a disk by copying the data stream whilst ignoring errors from the source disk, the data on the second disk could be 'repairable' with additional tools.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
TestDisk & Photorec are also good when used for the right fault.
http://www.cgsecurity.org
These are all *nix tools & require competence at the command line! Just installing can be too much for some non technical users.
You also need lots of spare disks to move data onto to run the tools.
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