Saturday, August 7, 2010

What to do when face with error- 60 "bad master directory block" In mac OSX

In Mac Machine, the Master Directory Block stores a variety of information about the volume. Though, there is another duplicate copy of the Master directory block at the second-last of the meta data, sometimes the corruption is critical and cumulative. These kinds of situation leave you ponder about your valuable data stuck in the Mac hard drive and you have to think of Mac data recovery or any available Mac file recovery software.

Scenario:
You just tried to zap your PRAM and immediately, got a gray screen. In a haste, you put your OS installation disk to repair, if anything is wrong. But, to your dismay, the next time you started up your system, you received a dark screen with a message to restart it again. Sometimes, when you are able to boot your system properly, you receive a flashy question mark on the hard drive icon and sometimes receives an error message halting the system. The error that you receive, may read as below:

Error:
“- 60 bad master directory block  ”
Probable cause:
There can be more than one cause behind the issue. First of all, as you are getting a flashy question mark instead of the hard drive symbol, it is likely that the Mac is not getting the start-up disk. Furthermore, there may be some corruption to the MDB.

Resolution:
Try to set the PRAM back to factory settings by pressing the keys COMMAND, OPTION, P and  R 4 times. During this time, the Mac must chime 4 times, then restart the system and re-adjust the needed preferences.

If the drive is accessible, then, do the update or reinstallation of the device driver using any formatting software. However, be careful, not to press either the initialize button or format button.

If the above steps failed to resolve the issue and the drive is inaccessible, then use any effective Mac data recovery software to recover back your inaccessible data inside the drive.