As one of our clients for instance, we do the online marketing for Bentley - so as you may imagine, it's absolutely This is CRITICAL information: my entire company's data of 9 years is in this DMG and so business has unfortunately come to a halt because of this problem. The compressed DMG file now sits on my external FireWire drive untouched, as a ~70Gb file.
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I've tried mounting it in the Finder, in Disk Utility, carrying out a verify/repair in Disk Utility, using the "Rebuid a Disk Image" option in the latest version of DiskWarrior, running Data Rescue II, FileSalvage, TechTool Pro - all to no avail.Īnd because I chose the default option (following carefully the knowledge base article above), the DMG file is a "compressed" one - I tried converting it to a "read/write" DMG and running the exact same tests - all with no luck whatsoever. I have tried numerous third-party applications on this DMG - after making a copy of it, of course - but I keep getting the same error message. Seeing as I could not access my data, I've since proceeded with the installation of Snow Leopard so that at least I have a system running to be able to login and post this topic you're reading now. I did this because my disk wasn't a GUID partition, and my understanding was that a GUID partition was necessary to upgrading to Snow Leopard.Īfter this backup was saved and written to my external FireWire drive, I partitioned my internal drive to the GUID format and then continued to restore my data from the DMG that was created on the backup drive when the following error was given:Īll the above was carried out upon boot up of the Snow Leopard DVD, using the supplied latest version of Disk Utility included with the DVD before the installation process.
Upon inserting the Snow Leopard DVD, I followed Apple's recommend procedure to backup my data as outlined in the following knowledge base article: *Firstly, I'm very thankful to anyone who replies to this topic and particularly to anyone on behalf of Apple.*
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