Can I still take files off my current (corrupt) internal hard drive if I boot off an external?
Ok, here's what happened...
My MacBook Pro (2009 I think) suddenly started freezing recently. It would freeze for 10-15mins then work for 2 then freeze again. I opened the disc utility and attempted to verify disc- it failed and told me to restart and hold cmd+R which I did. From here I tried to scan the disc again, it told me to repair the disc. The repair failed.
Now, I have a TM backup from a month ago, but I've done a lot of writing in the last month that I'm desperate to keep. I tried restarting it again with the hope that even if it keeps freezing, I'll be able to get my work off before doing a system restore, but now it turns itself off before loading up.
I have the crazy idea that if I go onto the boot disc utility and download mavericks to a flash pen, then I could boot up off that and hopefully access my internal hard drive from within. Then I could find the work, email it to another location and TM restore the whole shebang. Is this even possible?!
It's currently downloading / installing mavericks on the flash pen.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Desperate writer,
Jon
No. It is not an archival backup. It essentially is a mirror of what is on your hard drive. However, it will not delete those backups until it needs the space.
If you wish to archive them to other storage, you need to use something else (copying in Finder to an external would suffice).
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