[SOLVED] Mounting Mac OSX drive fails?

[darkstrike]

Hey all - I have a friend whose young daughter spilled water on her older Macbook Pro....which has killed it quite dead.

That being said, the hard drive survived and she asked me if I could take a look and get any files off. I don't have a Mac, but I know Mint can read from Apple HFS+ file systems by default.

I've installed her old drive in my external enclosure and Mint recognizes it and I can view the partitions in Gparted, but when I try to mount the main 'OSX' partition, I get the following error:

Any ideas how I can clear this to mount her drive and get her files off?

I had done this to another gentleman's older iMac desktop a few years ago and retrieved his files with no issues, so I know it's possible...

Thanks for any help!

[darkstrike]

Never mind - managed to solve it!

Ran this command, after which it mounts for read-only fine!

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 mint@mint ~ $ sudo fsck -fy /dev/sdb2