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Resolve Disk Utility “Invalid Record Count” Error

Mac OS X is one of the most popular operating system and is mainly due to its powerful and advanced features. The disk utility available in Mac OS X can easily be used for many purposes like for the maintaining disk integrity, checking S.M.A.R.T status, repairing the file system, making free spaces, pro viding permission, and many more tasks. Overall with this utility entire problem can be resolved, but in case the problem is severe, then this utility fails.

And under most of these situation Mac users come across a disk utility failure error message. And in order to overcome this situation, user will have to perform reinstallation of Mac OS X and then easily restore the date through update backup. But in many situations this might happen that user does not have updated backup and in that situation to recover the formatted data the need of third party data recovery is required.

For instance while you are using real-time situation and your Mac OS X becomes unbootable and then to resolve the situation you start Disk Utility, but suddenly it fails to resolve the issue instead displays error message as shown below:
"Verifying volume "PM G5 hd" Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume Invalid record count. Checking Extents Overflow file. Checking Catalog file. Invalid record count Invalid record count Invalid record count Volume check failed. Error: File system verify or repair failed."

After the occurrence of error message, the hard drive becomes unbootable that further results in data inaccessibility and worst happen when entire stored data gets deleted. So in order to resolve this situation user can try below given steps:

  • At first run FSCK command, with this you can easily repair the corrupted file system.
  • If the above command does not work then you will have to reinstall the Mac OS X. Doing this will delete all the stored data and in order to restore the data you will have to user professional third party Mac Hard Drive Recovery Software.

This software has powerful and secure algorithm to recover all the deleted data. It performs advanced scanning of hard drive that enables the user to restore all the deleted data. This software has easy to use interface along with read only features. It also shows the preview of recoverable data. With this user can restore data safely, securely, quickly and easily. It supports Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.6 Snow Leopard based hard drives. And it is also compatible with HFS+, HFS, HFS Wrapper, HFSX, and FAT file systems.