Hello, I am running the latest El Capitan on my late 2008 iMac. I use time machine and Superduper! to an external hard disk. Both my internal and external hard disks are encrypted with the same password which is also my logon password.
Recently something happened to my internal hard disk. Fortunately I was able to boot from my external backup disk and then used Superduper! to recover my internal hard disk from a 3 week old Superduper! backup. The restore seemed to work fine and after unlocking my internal hard disk with the encryption password via disk utility I was able to view the contents of this disk which all looked fine. I then used system preferences to set my internal hard disk as the start up disk and rebooted. In the past when booting from my internal hard disk I pressed Command+F5 shortly after the startup chime. That result in a single beep telling me to enter my user name. I then pressed Enter which resulted in 2 beeps telling me to enter my logon password. I then hit Enter which resulted in 3 beeps telling me that all is OK and the system booted. Shortly thereafter VoiceOver started and all was well. Note that this complexity is there because the internal hard disk is encrypted and so VoiceOver does not work for the normal logon sequence. I expected the above to work OK after erasing the internal hard disk and restoring it from my Superduper! backup. But alas the above sequence no longer works and I thus have no idea what is happening as I cannot start VoiceOver. Does anyone have any ideas on what is happening and what I should do to get my internal hard disk working again? I can use the iMac from my external hard disk but disk access is very slow! Many thanks for any tips. Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
