Ok, so the saga continues w/ this Momentus XT drive.
This morning I went out and bought a 2.5" enclosure for my new hd (the XT) and booted from my original Mac drive. I put in the OSX DVD and installed OSX to the USB drive.
Everything went fine, the system booted to the new drive and so on. So I change the startup disk back to my original disk, boot back into my previous install of the OS. I verify the new disk is good and everything comes back great. I unmounted the USB drive (new HD) correctly (dragging its icon to trash), shut down, unplug, etc.
I remove the XT from the enclosure and install it into my MBP.
I restart the computer and the gray screen comes up and shows the Apple Logo, then a Folder Icon w/ a question mark, and then a circle with a line thru it. It just keeps repeating this pattern.
So I shut down, hold down the option key and boot to the OSX dvd and go into Disk Utility and perform a Verify Disk and on the drive it comes back and tells me:
Invalid Node Structure
The Volume could not be verified completely
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk
So I click Repair Disk and it I get:
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk...disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Is there some step I'm missing? How is the drive functioning as my startup disk when it's in the USB enclosure, but when I install it in my machine it takes a dump? Should I make a time machine backup and then restore from it once the disk is repaired?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
This morning I went out and bought a 2.5" enclosure for my new hd (the XT) and booted from my original Mac drive. I put in the OSX DVD and installed OSX to the USB drive.
Everything went fine, the system booted to the new drive and so on. So I change the startup disk back to my original disk, boot back into my previous install of the OS. I verify the new disk is good and everything comes back great. I unmounted the USB drive (new HD) correctly (dragging its icon to trash), shut down, unplug, etc.
I remove the XT from the enclosure and install it into my MBP.
I restart the computer and the gray screen comes up and shows the Apple Logo, then a Folder Icon w/ a question mark, and then a circle with a line thru it. It just keeps repeating this pattern.
So I shut down, hold down the option key and boot to the OSX dvd and go into Disk Utility and perform a Verify Disk and on the drive it comes back and tells me:
Invalid Node Structure
The Volume could not be verified completely
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk
So I click Repair Disk and it I get:
Volume repair complete.
Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk...disk, and restore your backed-up files.
Is there some step I'm missing? How is the drive functioning as my startup disk when it's in the USB enclosure, but when I install it in my machine it takes a dump? Should I make a time machine backup and then restore from it once the disk is repaired?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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