Frut02 Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 This is probably a really simple one for all the mac experts out there. I have a mac and it won’t boot. From what I can see it tries to repair the disk 3 times and then shuts down. I have been into disk utilities and have a look and have tried to manually repair it. However it just tells me that the partition is bad and needs to be reformatted and mac osx needs to be reinstalled. OK that bit above is fine - does anyone know what the best way to get all of the data from the hard drive before wiping it. I have tried Taking a copy of the drive onto a removable drive - it just restarts when it gets to about 92% done Install mac os onto a removable drive (formatted correctly) from the tools after putting in my apple id it tells me the service is down, or if i use the disks it doesn’t show the removable drive in the list of drives I'm a bit stuck on this one. Many thanks Nick
soapyfish Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 If you remove the physical hard drive and connect it up to a Linux box I would think you would be able to mount the drive, although I have never tried it myself. The OSX file system is HFS. This link might help you How to read and write HFS+ journaled external HDD in Ubuntu without access to OS X? - Ask Ubuntu
Frut02 Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 That will be my last attempt as opening it up isnt looking too promising at the moment. Do you know if its possible to boot into ubuntu live on a mac? I could then mount the drive from in there.
soapyfish Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) You can boot from the Ubuntu live CD yes and you can also install the packages that are required too. - - - Updated - - - I am assuming that its an intel based mac not one of the old power systems Edited May 12, 2015 by soapyfish spelling
tmcd35 Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 If you have access to a second mac and a thunderbolt cable you can try target disk mode (hold down T while turning on).
Frut02 Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 You can boot from the Ubuntu live CD yes and you can also install the packages that are required too. - - - Updated - - - I am assuming that its an intel based mac not one of the old power systems Yes Intel.
Frut02 Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 Hmm that sounds like that might work - all i need to do is find me the cable
glen_j Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 if you have another mac you can use the one that won't boot as an external drive to access the data. How to Use Target Disk Mode to Boot From Another Mac's Hard Drive - The Mac Observer 1
mac_shinobi Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 If you have access to a second mac and a thunderbolt cable you can try target disk mode (hold down T while turning on). Thought you could do this with a firewire cable as well ?
tmcd35 Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 Thought you could do this with a firewire cable as well ? You can but I'll admit to assuming a newer mac.
cpjitservices Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 Thought you could do this with a firewire cable as well ? Yes. You can I believe
Norphy Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 You can but that assumes that the Mac has a FireWire port. Depending on how new it is, it may not
mac_shinobi Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 You can but I'll admit to assuming a newer mac. ah ok - just an expensive way of doing it as am sure Thunderbolt cables are around the £20 mark or more ( could be wrong as not looked for a while ) versus firewire which is cheaper. Depends on what year apple mac so like you say how old or new it is etc ?
Frut02 Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 I dont have any firewire boo hoo. I'll have to get myself a thunderbolt cable. Unless the ubuntu live way will help?
mac_shinobi Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 Before you take the hard drive out or try and do the ubuntu stuff - what about booting into single user mode and running a fsck Repair Your Hard Disk in Single User Mode | Everything Macintosh
Frut02 Posted May 12, 2015 Author Posted May 12, 2015 Before you take the hard drive out or try and do the ubuntu stuff - what about booting into single user mode and running a fsck Repair Your Hard Disk in Single User Mode | Everything Macintosh I've given that one a go - i got really ecited beacsue it looked like it was going to work - then it rebooted and went back to the same apple logo with the very slow moving progress bar
mac_shinobi Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 I would say try the Ubuntu route then - try and get the data off the drive if possible
cpjitservices Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 If you can afford it, you could look at this: DiskWarrior 5 - The Disk Utility for Mac Disk Repair, Mac Directory Repair, Mac Disk Recovery, Mac Data Recovery
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