MacBook Pro HD Dead for only one portion
Hey everyone,
Yesterday night my MacBook Pro was working just fine, when my safari just froze up out of the blue. I couldn't move anything in safari so I just went to the apple button and clicked restart my macintosh. When the computer restarted it did the bong noise pulled up the gray screen and the gray apple appeared. Once it appears the spinning wheel appears and then it sits like that for around 5 min and just turns itself off.
My Hard drive is partitioned to hold both leopard and windows. I held down the alt/option key and I'm able to select which disk I want to boot. I click windows and Windows loads just fine. I do a normal restart on Windows Vista and the computer shuts down and restarts. I attempt the same thing only clicking the Macintosh HD and it repeats the same thing above with the apple and the spinning wheel to only have itself turn off.
I tried about 10 times when I finally put in the Leopard Disk and held down "c" when I started my mac back up. It booted the Disk after holding c down for about 3 min and I could do a fresh install or use any of the utilities in the Disk.
I then tried disk utility. When disk utility appears it takes a REALLY long time for the Macintosh HD to appear. I click to verify the disk. I starts up normal and then after 3 min I get an error in red saying the disk can not be verified. I've done this several times to no avail.
Now I'm able to go to the restore portion and drag my Mac HD and my External HD to back this up but when I begin it gives me the message that Macintosh HD can not be restored. So I click the Image button to select the image I want to restore on the Mac HD and I can see all my files that are saved on there. So what I need help with is how to remove the files from the broken HD on my mac and just move all the files that are in my /Users/Bennett/Documents location.
I have tried using terminal but maybe I'm not doing it right. I have some knowledge of computers but not enough to know how to back up my Documents from a slightly un-usable hd. If anyone has ANY recommendations at all it would be greatly appreciated.
(Also if there is a way to view the files on the MAC partition of my HD from Winodws Vista while using boot camp could I move the files this way?)
Message was edited by: Broti
Exactly how did you use Disk Utility in safe mode when the drive was not showing up? Did you successfully boot into safe mode? If so, then the drive isn't dead.
Did you boot the computer from the Recovery HD? Is that where you used Disk Utility? If you can boot to the Recovery HD, then do the following:
Install or Reinstall Mavericks or Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Erase and reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
because it is three times faster than wireless.
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