Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to my external
hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung for about thirty seconds,
while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve come to dread. Still, it’s working,
thankfully; my main partition won’t even boot.
As to wiping, I’m still not sure what to do. I mean, I know how to format the
drive from the OS X on my thumb drive and then install, the question is, what
do I do with my partitions? I have two, one Macintosh HD and one OS X Beta
Partition. When I did a clean install back in March, I had only the Macintosh
HD partition and so didn’t need to worry. I reformatted that partition, but
didn’t actually erase it, as people I asked told me that completely erasing the
Macintosh HD partition could turn out badly. Are you saying that I should
format the entire drive, wiping out both partitions? If I do that, won’t it
affect the installation of the OS, or will the installer partition as necessary?
On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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
<[email protected]> 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?
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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