subject: Error cannot Be Rebuilt In Mac Os X While Repairing Disk Using Disk Utility [print this page] Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is one of the most reliable and popular operating system of Mac OS X series of operating systems. It supports Extended Attributes that were not supported in earlier versions. These Extended Attributes may cause a number of problems, which trying to repair a damaged Mac hard drive using Disk Utility. The repair process gets terminated and thus your system can not function properly. In such cases, all of your data becomes inaccessible due to damage to the hard drive and you come across critical data loss situations. At this point, you need to retrieve lost data using Mac Data Recovery solutions.
In a practical scenario, when you scan Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger hard drive using Disk Utility to repair it, you might come across below given error message:
Cannot be rebuilt. The original directory is too severely damaged
After this error messages, the disk repair process gets halted and your drive remains damaged. At this point, you need to find out the cause of this issue and go for Data Recovery Mac by sorting it out.
In Mac OS X, Disk Utility is designed to carry out a number of disk related operations such as repair, format, repartition and so forth. In this case, errors does not allow to complete the operation as the directory is damaged. The error message shows that damaged directory can not be rebuild and the data loss has occurred.
This issue may also occur due to incompatibility of the Disk Utility. Mac OS X Tiger supports Extended Attributes that weren't there in older versions. Thus when the incompatible Disk Utility try to repair the drive, it takes Extended Attributes as directory and possibly remove them.
You should never apply a Disk Utility that is not compatible with your operating system. It might cause serious data loss situations that lead to Mac Recovery.
Recovery is best possible using advanced and powerful third-party applications, known as Mac Recovery Software. The applications use high-end scanning techniques to carry out in-depth scan of damaged hard drive and retrieve all of the lost data from it.
In order to recover data through these applications, you need not to have sound technical skills as the tools come equipped with interactive and simple graphical user interface. They do not play with the integrity of your data as they have read-only and non-destructive behavior.
Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is the most advanced and efficient application for quick and absolute recovery. It recovers data from all HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS Wrapper and FAT file system volumes. The software is designed for Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5, 10.4 and 10.3.9.
