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Gareth Slee - 30 Jul 2007 17:49 GMT

Panicked phone call from daughter today. MacBook booting to blue screen
and freezing. Talked her through the PRAM reset thing but to no avail.
Well it improved the situation a little because the MacBook was at least
now giving the startup chime but still freezing at a blue screen.

Told her to shut it down and I'd take a look when I got home. When I got
home decided to try and boot from the Install DVD while holding down the
C key.
Run "Disk Utility" and immediately got a "Invalid Volume Header"
message. Tried the repair option and lo and behold it repaired OK.
Rebooted the machine and it started with no problem.

Anyone know what a "Invalid Volume Header" is and more importantly do I
have to worry about it in the future?

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Odie Ferrous - 30 Jul 2007 22:58 GMT

> Panicked phone call from daughter today. MacBook booting to blue screen
> and freezing. Talked her through the PRAM reset thing but to no avail.
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> Am I the only Gareth Slee?
> http://www.garethslee.com

I would remove the drive from the Mac and use something like MHDD (only
works on a PC, unfortunately) to run a scan on the drive, as there may
be bad sectors developing.

If you can't get hold of MHDD, let me know and I'll email / post you a
copy.

Odie

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MacBook failing to boot