Volume Header Corruption Causes Data Loss in Mac OS X

Mac OS X operating system enables you to dividecorrupt and inaccessible after this behavior. In
your hard drive into several partitions, calledorder to retrieve lost data from Mac hard drive
volumes. Every Mac volume is formatted using avolume, you need to find out the cause of this
file system, which can be HFS, HFS+, HFSX, orproblem and perform data recovery Mac by
HFS Wrapper. The information related to Macresolving it.
volume, such as volume size, file system type,Root of the problem:
starting sector address, and more, is stored inAs stated in the above error message, this
volume header. In case the volume header getsbehavior of Mac OS X hard drive occurs due to
damaged, entire volume becomes inaccessible andcorruption to the volume header. After volume
you face severe data loss situations. At this point,header corruption, Mac OS X operating system
Mac file recovery becomes need of hour, if therecan not recognize the volume and thus it can not
is no updated backup in place.be accessed.
Mac OS X operating system provides an inbuiltVolume Header is 1 KB file system meta data
utility, called Disk Utility, to fix most of the errorsstructure in Mac. This is parallel to Master
on Mac hard drive volume. It checks consistencyDirectory Block for HFS file system. It stores
and integrity of the file system and hard drive.significant information about volume, such as
However, in some situations, when you try to fixphysical locations and data structures.
a damaged volume using the Disk Utility, theSolution
below error message occurs:To fix this behavior of your Mac machine, you
"Volume Header needs minor repair The volumeneed to format the hard drive, recreate the hard
Macintosh HD needs to be repaired. Error: Thedrive volumes, reinstall operating system, and
underlying task reported failure on exit 1HFSthen restore data from backup. If backup is not
volume checked Volume needs repair"available then Mac data recovery is performed,
After the above error message, disk verificationusing third-party applications.
process gets interrupted. The volume remains