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Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode
My computer won't start up past the login screen so first i tried Safe Mode [Shift+Start up] didn't work . Then I tried to reinstall software [Command+R+Start Up] my apple logo turned into a circle with a line through it and the gear never stopped spinning [about half hour later] so I turned it off. I then tried to reset the NVRAM [Command+Option+P+R] and I got to a screen that said "Mac OS X Utilities" from there I went to Disk Utility and saw that my disk had S.M.A.R.T. errors. I clicked "Repair Disk" and it found the problem and fixed it apparently. However, when I tried to reinstall Lion I got this image
So I have a few questions:
If my disk is corrupted, why did it say the repair worked ? If my disk is corrupted, how can I back up the files if I can't login ? Is it possible to repair the S.M.A.R.T. errors ? I want to AT THE VERY LEAST back up my photos and a few documents, is there any way I can put those files onto a USB through Disk Utility ?
Thanks in advance
O.rka
Posted 2012-12-28T22:24:48.863
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You "backup" your files before this happens. You try to "recover" them after the fact. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2012-12-28T22:27:26.570
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possible duplicate of Repair or recover drive from Mac OSX recovery mode also see Recover hard disk data? also How to recover data from a hard drive crash? and a few others.
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2012-12-28T22:29:26.650