Techtool pro 5 rebuild failed. What do I do next?

Having some problems with MacBook, ran Techtool pro 5, volume rebuild failed. computer still works, but applications have to be force quit.
What should I do next?

It is a 13" MacBook OSX 10.5.8 intel core 2 duo.

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We put the OS X 10.5 install dvd in our Macbook with the intent to edit the administrator password and instead triggered what our Macbook thought was some kind of upgrade. We were afraid to cancel it, but about a minute in the "upgrade" ended up failing. We lost our ability to boot to the desktop and so we took it in to the Apple Store where they advised us that the node structure became invalid. They told us to either get Diskwarrior or TechTool Pro. We opted for the latter.
We've been doing a volume rebuild now for the last 27 hours. Is this normal?? We did not have an external drive, but there's no indication that this is required. In further searching, we noticed that it's recommended to have one, but we don't. The program has been sitting at "repairing directory structure" and occasionally the dvd drive spins. There's no progress bar, so we don't know what is going on. Does anyone have experience with this who can shed some light on what's going on??
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Last year, all of a sudden, it gave me the following error while trying to plug it in: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"
I was mad and left it for dead while looking for a way to fix it.
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It could be a problem with enclosure, but it also could be a problem with the drive itself or the drive is possibly corrupted. I would start by contacting WD tech support.
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If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as MAC Data Recovery, Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads. Recovery software usually provide trial versions that enable you to determine if the software would help before actually paying for it. Beyond this or if the drive has completely failed, then you would need to send the drive to a recovery service which is very expensive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.
Otherwise, unless the drive fixes itself like before you should try repartitioning and reformatting to determine if the drive has failed or is now working properly.

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Hallo, I was instaled Techttol pro 6 with eDrive and restard from eDrive. Login on server is failed. What can I do? I'm traied change password, but nothing.
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Hi recently i updated to techtool pro 4.1 and since this time i have had a few problems. I erased the original edrive as advised and reinstalled the new edrive./ all was hunky dory everything working really well and quick. Then the phantom grey screen appeared at boot up. All keyboard function had no effect, no chime no whirring just freeze. So i zapped the PRAM and hey presto it kicked in allowing me to disconnect peripherals and as a precausiton i took out the techttol pro completely. since then and on reading other users comments ablout glitches i have been loathe to reinstall it but want trouble free computing ( as near as **** it) What do i do I have software whcih is touted initially as great and has conflicting reports. What do i do?
I use my mac for home use only and only have fotos and music and the odd lyric i have written. Q what is disc warrior do i need it?
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Hi Alan, Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I am running TTP 4.1.1 with 10.4.6 without issues. I don't use e-drive, never did so I can't help you there but there should be no conflict.
I can assure you with 99.999% certainty it is NOT a virus.
DiskWarrior rebuilds the directory and it does it in the same fashion as TTP and that is about all it does, so if you have TTP I wouldn't advise spending the additional $ on DW.
What does Disk Utility >> Verify Disk report?
What issues are you experiencing now?
-mj
[email protected]

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Has this affected anyone else ?

Lesultan wrote:
Now is there a chance you could find another moment to explain WHY TTP is such a problem ? I've used it for more than 10 years and it's only been an asset.
I realize you considered my response unhelpful, but my answer remains unchanged: uninstall it.
You explained that your Mac was unable to start. In that case the Apple Support article is the appropriate place to begin troubleshooting.
You also asked if anyone else had been similarly affected. Lacking an overwhelming response from a representative sample of millions of Mac users running the latest OS X release, any premise that the update caused this problem must be logically flawed. On the other hand OS X updates will very frequently reveal incompatibilities with third party software, especially those that modify the Mac's operating system. Techtool Pro is one of many that do.
TTP is also unnecessary in that it conveys no benefit. An example is the following: http://www.micromat.com/support-45/knowledgebase/ttp7kb/techtool-pro-has-found-b ad-blocks-what-do-i-do7
Solution: erase the volume, if it happens again replace the drive. Really?
TTP and similar utilities may be used to "repair" a damaged HD for the purposes of extracting whatever data remains intact, after an irretrievable data loss event has already occurred. Your very complaint illustrated that it was unable to do that. Conclusion: it's worthless.
... I decided to run the Mac Pro in Target Disk mode and run Disk Utility from my laptop on the suspect disk - it repaired (or so it says) the disk and now I'm copying ("restoring") all contents onto another disk that I can run further tests on later.
To be clear, Apple's Disk Utility accomplished what TTP could not.
Most likely, your HD is already in a failed state, so I don't recommend relying upon it. I do recommend that you extract its data, then replace the drive.
A failed HD will fail again, every time. Hard disks are cheap, and backups are essential. Having a reliable backup strategy makes events like this a non-event. If you want to keep the HD in service despite these cautions, I recommend you erase it as recommended by Micromat, do not reinstall TTP, and if it fails again replace it - also as recommended by Micromat.
I maintain many Macs for many people and have done so for many years. None of them have TTP or any similarly clever utilities installed. It's your Mac, do with it what you will, but if you choose to install such junk you own the consequences, which may be that it trashes your Mac.

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I don't know the answer to your question. But, since it's otherwise gathering moss at the moment . . .
. . . I'll climb way out on the limb with a crazy thought from left field:
Though .bim is decidedly a graphics file suffix, the rest of the message sounds suspiciously like resource fork lingo . . .
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Error: DW050: - Acrobat X Pro : Install failed.
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Can an earlier version of TechTool Pro be used to diagnose and fix issues with a drive with Panther 10.3.9 installed?
I have tried to install TechTool pro version 4.1.1 for Panther on my beige G3 and it will not launch. It "unexpectedly quits".
Also, I have a second drive that won't boot a cloned copy of OS X Panther and I can't use this drive to boot from and use same version of TechTool on that drive to diagnose the primary boot drive.
The idea was to have 2 versions of OS X Panther to be able to fix issues with both internal drives when needed. Can't seem to be able to do this.
The TTP 4 CD won't boot from the beige's internal CD drive, either. I have an additional CD drive connected via a PCI FW card, but I beleive that the beige Macs are not bootable through FW. So, that won't work.
I have an older version 3.X of TTP that does boot from CD and can be used from OS 9 to diagnose an OS X system. I used to use this version to fix issues with OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar. Since I appear to have some limitations, is it advisable to use an older disk repair app to fix a newer OS X system?
I realize that it might not "fix" everything but will it fix what it'll recognized and not do any additional file damage to a newer system?
Bad idea?
I am kinda stuck as I have a perfectly good working version of OS X Panther running on this Mac, but with no way to do any disk maintenance or repairs with the Panther version of TTP.
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Think there is any use trying one of those data recovery programs to see if I could extract some information from the disk?
I am realizing that I will probably need a new hard drive to get the computer running . A friend's dad who is a computer teacher (though mostly PC but has kids with Macs so he's been working with Macs a bit and learning) mentioned the possibility of putting in a new hard drive as the start up drive then installing the old one as a secondary hard drive so I can try to access my data that way. Think that sounds like a feasible option to try? Perhaps I could run the recovery within that configuration. Worth a try? Pointless?
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