FirstAid fails...

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Created Aug ’19

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I have a Trash I can't empty (which I have reported earlier), and something prompted me to run FirstAid. I booted up in Recovery mode, and started up FirstAid, and guess what? Yes, I have an issue.

However, FirstAid can't fix it (I have tried twice). I get the message that "First Aid process has failed. If possible back up the data on this volume. Click Done to continue."

My 1TB internal SSD is named Master, and I have a 200GB BootCamp partition running on it as well.

My Master SSD has one containers, and 2 volumes, "Master" and "Master - Data". The error is on my "Master - Data" volume.

Of course I have backups, both Time Machine, as well as external backup of my user folder.

What should I do?

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Answer 1

daviangel OP

Aug ’19

You can try booting into recovery mode and running first aid but looks like your disk is dead so I'd take it in to get repaired if still under warranty. Just had external drive die and no matter what I tried FirstAid couldn't fix it and neither could Windows but at least Windows tried but drive would just get very hot since it was trying to skip bad sectors and basically froze after trying to fix it for hour or more via chkdsk.

If Disk Utility tells you the disk is about to fail, back up your data and replace the disk. You can’t repair it.

https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/repair-a-disk-dskutl1040/mac

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Answer 2

KillerBob OP

Aug ’19

If you read my post again you'll see I did boot into Recovery, and this is where FirstAid fails, AND the disk is not dead. I am using it just fine, and I have no issues, only the failing FirstAid, and a Trash which I can't empty - this is obviously related to Catalina...

I think the data in my Trash is something that Catalina did, and when I get rid of it, I think the "Master - Data" volume will be just fine.

So, I'll wait and see if the final Catalina release will fix it, if it does, great. However, I think I'll have to do a reinstall from scratch, which I will then do on a fresh Catalina installation.

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