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Ill briefly explain what happened to me... I was installing MAC OS 10.6 in my white intel Macook (I had Tiger previously)... all out of the sudden I was having trouble with the installation, which lead me (very stupidly) to force a shutdown.
Now the OS won’t load and I’m stuck in a white screen with the rotating wheel, leading nowhere else.
I have tried many things… I tried entering in SAFE MODE, but didn’t work… Also tried the “Archieve and Install” but apparently the disc is corrupted… I also tried repairing the disc but same thing… In Disc Utility, the S.M.A.R.T. status says verified, so I guess the HD is ok.
What really worries me is that I don’t have a back up of all my data.
I know that I still have other options, such as connecting my mac to a pc with a firewire cable (but Im not sure whether it will work if my hard drive in corrupted…) or running DISC WARRIOR…
To resume things up, what real choices do I have if I don’t want to loose the data in my HD??? Is there some way to access the information of my failed HD so that I can save it, and then simply format it??
Thanks in advanced.
Now the OS won’t load and I’m stuck in a white screen with the rotating wheel, leading nowhere else.
I have tried many things… I tried entering in SAFE MODE, but didn’t work… Also tried the “Archieve and Install” but apparently the disc is corrupted… I also tried repairing the disc but same thing… In Disc Utility, the S.M.A.R.T. status says verified, so I guess the HD is ok.
What really worries me is that I don’t have a back up of all my data.
I know that I still have other options, such as connecting my mac to a pc with a firewire cable (but Im not sure whether it will work if my hard drive in corrupted…) or running DISC WARRIOR…
To resume things up, what real choices do I have if I don’t want to loose the data in my HD??? Is there some way to access the information of my failed HD so that I can save it, and then simply format it??
Thanks in advanced.