I get more and more "input/output error" I erased and reinstalled
I am getting more and more "input/output error" on a multitude of subjects . I cannot repair the problem even though I have done a complete erase and instal.
I have a core duo intel based unit with 4 GB ram running 10.6.7.
It sounds like your hard drive is failing. If you haven't already done so, back up as much data as you can, then take the unit to an authorized service provider for testing.
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MacBook Disk Utility: "Input/Output Error" When Backing up my iBook
Alright, here's the skinny:
I'm backing up an iBook's system drive while in Target Disk Mode via my MacBook using DiskUtility. The drive I'm saving the image to is an HFS+ USB 2.0 enclosed standard 3.5" drive. I start the process and things go just fine--
--but then!
"The device you removed was not properly put away. Data might have been lost or damaged. Before you unplug your device, you must first select its icon in the Finder and choose Eject from the File menu."
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Here's what I've tried:
-Restarting, killing every unrelated user-level process
-Disconnecting every other device, media, and peripheral from both machines
-Running the machine in "Better Energy Savings" mode and disconnecting the PSU in case FW or USB was fritzing from the 83C of heat the computer was causing.
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In Disk Utility
1) Try to use erase option first, it failed
2) Try to partition the disk, failed as well.
3) Then try erase option again, then ... it worked !! -
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SOLVED: Getting an Input/Output error when accessing certain files
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Last edited by siell (2010-04-08 17:01:37)UPDATE
It seems to be fixed! The second run of e2fsck fixed some more issues and the files that were causing the problems earlier seemed to have bad inodes. Boots fine now and I can get into my system. I checked and I still have a reasonable amount of free space so I don't think that was the reason ... I have no idea how the filesystem got so corrupted out of nowhere.
A few things are different, for example, it asked me to unlock the keyring and I couldn't mount my external encrypted drive anymore and had to do it manually with cryptsetup. e2fsck made quite a few changes so I imagine it's due to that. Shouldn't be to hard to fix though.
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Leopard Disk Utility and Input/Output error messages.
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I hope this helps someone in the same position as me!I took it to work to use my Windows PC to try and format the drive, but got the same problem. I figured either the drive (it's a 2.5" that used to be inside my AlBook) or the external housing it lives is was faulty. Only way I could test without spending more money is by putting the 2.5" drive inside my powerbook, and booting the (Ti) powerbook from a bootable firewire ipod. I successfully booted from the ipod, and had the same problem with the now internal drive: only visible in disk utility, any attempt to erase fails. Also, I plugged the small 10 GB drive that WAS in the TiBook (but which I removed to put the other, problematic drive in) into the external housing, and it connected to other machines just fine.
Turns out the problem is the hard drive itself.
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Open error 5:"input/ output error" on syst with over 50 of this messages & still counting . Disk Utility says 1 minute
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Does anyone know what is going on here ?
My system looks like it has been totally corrupted . Thanks AndrewCould be. The "lock" isn't actually looking for a password.
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I'm trying to backup a my hard drive with disk utility but I'm getting an error Unable to create Backup.dmg" (input/output error). Is there any other way to save my data? I believe my hard drive is failing or corrupt file. I can't boot up. Grey screen and spinning wheel. I've tried everything https://discussions.apple.com/message/20580424#20580424
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Hi, I have a hard disk failure so to recover my data I am using disk utility to restore the data on an external drive while booting from a second external hard drive. When I perform the operation and after having selected both my destination and source drives, the operation begins but soon fails due to input/output error. If I try to create an image of the drive it gives me the same error message. Any help would be much appreciated.
Disk Utility only creates a image of the drive, so it's no help getting exactly what you want, which is your files. If the file structure is messed up or the drive is failing then it's no help.
If you have a external boot drive and you can't access the internal non-booting drive though the typical Finder and windows to transfer your files via drag and drop methods, then you need to install Data Rescue on the external boot drive and it will do as best as it can to recover your files. (works on non-encrypted/non-Filevaulted drives only)
.Create a data recovery/undelete external boot drive
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Macbook 2.1 and Western Digital BPVT input/output errors
Hi. After a hard drive failure in my macbook I tried upgrading to a 320GB Western digital BPVT hard disk. Unfortunately the macbook can't seem to read the disk properly when plugged in internally and it shows the capacity as 2.3TB and gives an input/output error when I try to erase the disk (it does show correctly the Description WDC WD3200BPVT).
The hard disk itself works. If I plug it into the sata caddy my windows 7 PC can see it, format, write and delete to it. AND if I plug the same caddy into the macbook as an external disk it can read it and write to it etc. The only difference I can think of is the caddy doesn't support S.M.A.R.T and as soon as the disk is put in internally I get the 2.3TB capacity and input/output errors. That said I put the hard disk in a HP laptop and it recognised the hard disk internally and installed the OS ok.
I tested the macbook with a scorpio blue BEVT 500GB and that works perfectly. So I know it's not the controller or capcity issue. Is it the BPVT? People on the discussion say this drives works fine, I'm just not sure if I'm missing something. I was fixing this computer for a friend and not 100% when it comes to Macs.
Has anyone seen this issue before? Is there anything I can do to get the hard drive to work in the mac..
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Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD3200BPVT Hard Disk Drive,320GB, 5400rpm, 8MB Cache, SATA 3 Gb/s
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Pb of input/output error between iPod and my PBG4
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I have a iPod Nano 2Go and I get all of the problems listed here : wether I try to restore or use the Disk mode, nothing worked ;
all that I could get was a message of error : one saying "1418 error" and other saying "input output error". I tried everything
all I only did was disconnect the ipod when I didn't have to do it.
I have this ipod since last month, and I am really disapointed of that problem
the worst is that Apple doesn't seem to care about it.
Is anyone getting any idea about that...???
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Kriss / F.GuianaI suggest that take a read the following first, and find a PC connect your iPod with it and follow the instruction
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[SOLVED] Input/output error on a some libs (Qt and wx) since few days
Hello,
I got some strange errors when doing an upgrade of my system since few days :
[victor@goldmund ~]$ LANG=C ls -al /usr/lib/ >/dev/null
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_net-2.8.so.0.5.0: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtGui.so: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtTest.so.4.5.0: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtAssistantClient.so: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtSvg.prl: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libwx_baseu_xml-2.8.so.0: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libwx_gtk2u_stc-2.8.so: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtXmlPatterns.so: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtSql.so.4.5.0: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtTest.so.4: Input/output error
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/libQtUiTools.a: Input/output error
I am not sure it is arch fault, but since I don't think I have a disk problem (dmesg doesn't show errors), I thought that maybe there was a problem with the packages or something else ...
I tried to remove these files and reinstall the package, but I can't (rm show me the Input/output error).
Thanks
Last edited by kaouete (2009-05-09 12:58:42)djgera wrote:
yes. Reboot with force fsck to check your filesystems. (I asume that you use ext2/3/4)
shutdown -F -r now
You were right, there was a problem with the filesystem (there was no badblock, I checked, so I guess (hope) it was only logical).
Got a bunch of errors about flag that should not be set (extend, compress) and size that should not be good, and also errors on the files I mentioned above.
I reinstalled the corresponding package and I did not got the errors I was getting before.
So I guess (hope again :) that all is alright now.
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I had a problem with the hard disk on a 13" 2010 macbook pro. Replaced the hard disk with an Hitachi 1TB disk but when I tried to erase and format, it fails with input/output error and at other times saying unable to allocate memory. Any help much appreciated!
Zap the PRAM and Reset the SMC, then try again.
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Hi all,
My computer a few days ago wouldn't start up, would just stay at the gray loading screen forever. So as a result I tried to reformat the hard drive and reinstall, but I can't reinstall, until I erase the hard drive, but when I try to erase the hard drive it says the erase failed due to an input/output error. What does this mean? What can I do to fix my computer?The startup drive is failing, or there is some other internal hardware fault.
Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider.
Back up all data on the internal drive(s) before you hand over your computer to anyone. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional — ask if you need guidance.
If privacy is a concern, erase the data partition(s) with the option to write zeros* (do this only if you have at least two complete, independent backups, and you know how to restore to an empty drive from any of them.) Don’t erase the recovery partition, if present.
Keeping your confidential data secure during hardware repair
Apple also recommends that you deauthorize a device in the iTunes Store before having it serviced.
*An SSD doesn't need to be zeroed. -
[SOLVED] Input/Output error, read and writing ..
This is my brand new Seagate 500GB disk making troubles, it is formatted with NTFS for easier accessing trough Windows because it is sometimes plugged into an external case.
[dezza@dezza ~]$ sudo rm -rf store/BADDIR/
rm: cannot remove `store/BADDIR/tonsi-tonsi.r09': Input/output error
I don't hope this means it's broken Cause I filled it to the limit with valuable stuff ..
I tried remounting and rebooting ..
Last edited by dezza (2008-05-14 14:21:54)Well, it's happened on this new disk a bought a few weeks ago, can I check it to be certain that it is a bad disk somehow?
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3) Then try erase option again, then ... it worked !!
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