Disk utility failure resulting in “Invalid record count.” Error

Have you ever come to a scenario where your Mac system becomes unmountable and you use Disk Utility in order to resolve the startup issue? However the tool fails to resolve the problem and encounters error message:

“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 encountering the above error message the mac hard drive becomes unmountable and it results in data inaccessibility. The main cause of the problem is severe corruption in HFS. To overcome the problem you can try by running FSCK command to repair the corrupted file system. If the problem still persists then you need to reinstall Mac OS X. If none works then format the hard drive and restore the data from backup available. In case if no nay backup is available then you need to use professional and good quality mac hard drive recovery software program. Software ensures secure, trouble-free, and quick recovery of formatted data from Mac OS.

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