Lion(?) appears to have destroyed my drive
Ok, so last Friday (6 days ago), I installed Lion on my home Mac Pro. The install went off without a hitch, and everything seemed to be working pretty well. Then today I woke my computer from sleep, and began working on a motion graphics piece in C4D. I went to edit a texture, and that is when all **** broke loose. First, I got a dialogue that said the resource file for this texture couldn't be found... odd I thought, though probably a permissions issue. So I thought I would access the directory and check the permissions. I invoked the command-tab app switcher, which then froze. I was able to hide C4D, but all Finder operations were in beach ball purgatory. After waiting for 10 minutes or so, I had to do a hard shut down.
My next 2 attempts at booting up were met with kernel panics... luckily I had a cloned Snow Leopard drive which I was able to boot into by invoking the option key at startup (I was presented with 2 options.. my SL clone, and the Lion recovery partition). Once in SL, I opened up Disk Utility. It could see the drive, but not mount it. I had an error stating that I had an invalid B-tree node size. I attempted to repair, and was told after some time that Disk Utility could not repair the drive, and I should pull all the files off that I can, and then reformat the drive. Great.. I would love to pull the files off, but since it won't mount, this isn't exactly possible... thanks for nothing, Disk Utility.
So then, I pulled out the big guns.. first Drive Genius 3, which again could see the drive, but do nothing with it, then Diskwarrior 4.3, again useless, and finally Data Rescue 3, which failed on both a Quick Scan, and a Deep Scan. My next step will be a target mode inspection from my laptop, failing that I will attempt Data Rescue's clone function... though I will have to buy a drive to clone too. Hope appears to be dimming that I will get back the information I had there which I have accrued since my last back-up (shockingly, this is about 300GB worth of data, it's been a busy week).
Anyway, the drive is not making any clicking sounds, or showing any other signs of hardware failure, and is only about 7-8 months old. It appears, to me then that there was an extremely deep-level file corruption that just hosed the directory. I do hope that my case is just an anomaly, and not endemic of a larger filesystem issue.
If any of you have any additional suggestions for how I can resurrect this drive, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Will
OK, well... I did a restart, invoking the 'option' command, and the Lion Recovery partition did not show up, so I went ahead and booted back into SL, wherein I was given a 'The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer' with a choice of ejecting, ignoring, or initializing. I chose Ignore, and the drive now just shows up in disk utility as 'media' with no opportunity to interact with it.
I had the presence of mind to make a Lion DVD before I installed, so I booted with that, and it too was unable to interact with the drive.
Given the degraded state of this drive, I have no reason to suspect that entering target disk mode and mounting to my MBP would bear any fruit... looks like this sucker is beyond hope. Yay...
I will not be re-installing Lion until at least .2 comes out at this point.. I can't afford a wasted day like this again.
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