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My wife has a Macbook Pro (first Intel one) which had a grey screen upon start-up.
She tried Disc Warrior and the program ran for over 18 hours (yes, eighteen hours)
while the message continued to state "rebuilding Directory." She gave up.
She had to eject the disc using the mouse and power key.

She then tried re-installing the system using the system discs.
The message she received was "Mac OS X can't be installed because the disc is not journaled."

It further instructs her to "enable journaling open Disc Utility by choosing Utilities
Disc Utilities, Select Untitled and then file, enable journaling."

The only options available are Verify Disc and Repair Disc.

Disc Warrior reports, "Can't restore disc. Reformat disc."

She then erased the HD using Disc Warrior.

Then the earlier message appeared again:
The message says, "Mac OS X can't be installed because the disc is not journaled."

It instructs her to "enable journaling, open Disc Utility by choosing Utilities,
Disc Utilities, Select Untitled and then file, enable journaling."

But the command (journaling) to do that is greyed out.

Any ideas?

Can you erase and repartition (if needed) the hard drive from Disk Utility which really what to use for these tasks?

Use the OS provided DVD install disks or a Firewire drive, not Disk Warrior which may not support those functions.

-Peter

marcs1, on 15 February 2011 - 11:43 PM, said: