blue screen after diskwarrior

[peterrecio]

Hi,

I ran diskwarrior as part of my usual maintenance, but after quitting and attempting to restart from the hard drive, a blue screen eventually appeared and there it remained. This blue screen flickered slightly and intermittently and when doing so the cursor would disappear.

Identical results occurred when booting from the leopard install cd, running disk utility, quitting and restarting.

Can you help?

Thanks

Peter

 

[dirt farmer]

Something similar happened to me the first time I used Diskwarrior, years ago (2005?). I called Alsoft, and they told me that although Diskwarrior saved my drive, I had to do an Archive and Install.

 

[Satcomer]

This tends to happen when DiskWarrior finds a bad sector (it can not fix) in the startup sequence. So if i were you I would quickly invest in a Firewire external drive and clone your operating system (with either the free Carbon Copy Cloner or the shareware SuperDuper) and schedule a full backup and a Daily Incremental backup after (for daily changes).

I say this because if your internal drive has this bad sector DiskWarrior couldn't fix it means that the drive is starting a death spiral.