Hi, For expediency purposes, I wouldn’t worry about re-mapping partitions etc., you’re just going to wipe the drive and re-partition anyway. Regarding grabbing those files, if you startup from your thumb drive, then go under it’s Apple menu to Startup Disk, you should be able to select the 10.9.3 beta partition as your startup disk. if things are OK in that area of the HD. Once you’ve started with that version of the OS, you could quickly get the files you want and place them onto whatever media you want. You could then go ahead and do the total wipe/re-partition and re-install from your 10.9.3 thumb drive. It’s best to do it from there since it needs to be done from a external source in order to completely reformat the drive.
If you’re unable to startup from your beta partition, then the drive is in fairly rough shape and you’d either need to use Terminal commands to grab those files or just give up on them. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Thanks guys. I have a thumb drive with Mavericsk that I’ve used before, and > that I keep around now that we have a couple Macs in the house. I’ll use > that. Before I do though, is there any way to copy off any other files I’d > like to keep, ones I could recover but that it’d be easier just to have if I > can get them? I could probably boot into that beta partition and copy, but I > don’t know if I’ll have the permissions to do that. I’ll also need a way to > erase the beta partition, if that is indeed the problem. I only tested one > OS, the 10.9.3 beta a month ago, but I suppose it could have caused the > problem. Anyway, can I erase that from Disk Utility on the recovery HD, and > if so, how would I do that and merge its space back to Macintosh HD? > On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I agree with Chris that it could very likely be a software thing. So, since >> you have a Time Machine backup that is fairly up-to-date and you say that >> you have your important files backed up, I’d go for the reformat and >> reinstall option. If you don’t have an external HD or the cables that I >> mentioned earlier, there is a neat little utility within the Mavericks >> Installer that allows you to build a bootable Mavericks installer on a flash >> drive that is at least 8 GB in size. If you wish to go that way, I can >> share instructions with you. >> >> Later… >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:00 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> You mentioned a 50GB partition for OSX betas. So were you running beta OSes >>> on this box? If so, it's at least plausible that the beta OSX had some kind >>> of bug which mangled data structures on the drive and, since it had access >>> to your non-beta partition, it could have mangled your regular OSX boot >>> drive as well. In other words, this could still have been a software issue. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 6/5/14, 9:17 PM, Alex Hall wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> So, here's the status of my Mac Mini's hard drive. >>>> >>>> * Two repairs from the Recovery HD resulted in an error telling me to >>>> format ad re-install. >>>> * I did just that at the end of March, and given that two repairs couldn't >>>> fix whatever errors have accumulated after three months, it seems like the >>>> drive itself is having problems. >>>> * The SMART status of the drive is "verified", not "failing", which seems >>>> odd given the previous points. >>>> * The drive is partitioned into two: 450gb for OS X, and 50gb for OS X >>>> betas. I don't yet know if the beta partition works, but both share a >>>> drive so I'm not optimistic. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? I looked at replacing the drive, but the iFixIt instructions >>>> are scary and require special tools. The Mini is not under Apple Care >>>> protection, and my nearest Genius bar is almost three hours away. Am I >>>> just doomed, or is there a check/repair/miracle program I could run? 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