Hi Guys & Gals,
If anyone can give me help that would be awesome, just looking at what my options may be, here's the story:
Upgraded my IMAC yesterday to snow leopard - no probs
I had to find another way to upgrade my MacBook since the dvd drive has not worked for six months, so I used disc utility and did a restore onto an external hdd and placed snow leopard their to install on my macbook.
Initially had problems installing as it said it couldn't install onto my mac hd so I thought it may be because it was partitioned so I unpartitioned my drive through bootcamp (not worried as I hadn't used windows in about a year).
I tried to install again and it made it to the page where it says how many minutes left (it started at about 45 and made it to about 42) from there it said some installation error. Tried this a few times.
I then tried to restart and my Macbook will not boot to the OS. Kind of worried because guess who the wanker is that never backed up his Macbook. I think I may of needed to use the power button to restart and that is when the problem started.
Things I have tried:
Safe Mode - did nothing
Target Mode with Imac - did this to try and back up files but Imac did not recognise the macbook *Edit* My bad, did not understand firewire. Funnily enough firewire requires a firewire cable, I was using ethernet thinking that would be good. That said I cannot get a firewire cable until tomorrow due to shops closed for new year.
I am able to bring up disc utility in the boot up and tried verify disc, said the drive has errors and needs to be repaired. Clicked repaired and it went for about 2 minutes before it had errors and said backup and erase the drive.
Not sure if the drive is damaged (just read through my own post and obviously it is just don't know if it is recoverable), it still shows up if I use option on the boot up and can see it easily in disc utility.
So my questions are is there firstly an easy option? I have partitioned my external hdd, on one partition is snow leopard install and on the other is leopard install disc one so I'm not sure if I can do something that way.
If there doesn't seem like an easy option is there a way to back up my macbook?
If anyone can give me help that would be awesome, just looking at what my options may be, here's the story:
Upgraded my IMAC yesterday to snow leopard - no probs
I had to find another way to upgrade my MacBook since the dvd drive has not worked for six months, so I used disc utility and did a restore onto an external hdd and placed snow leopard their to install on my macbook.
Initially had problems installing as it said it couldn't install onto my mac hd so I thought it may be because it was partitioned so I unpartitioned my drive through bootcamp (not worried as I hadn't used windows in about a year).
I tried to install again and it made it to the page where it says how many minutes left (it started at about 45 and made it to about 42) from there it said some installation error. Tried this a few times.
I then tried to restart and my Macbook will not boot to the OS. Kind of worried because guess who the wanker is that never backed up his Macbook. I think I may of needed to use the power button to restart and that is when the problem started.
Things I have tried:
Safe Mode - did nothing
Target Mode with Imac - did this to try and back up files but Imac did not recognise the macbook *Edit* My bad, did not understand firewire. Funnily enough firewire requires a firewire cable, I was using ethernet thinking that would be good. That said I cannot get a firewire cable until tomorrow due to shops closed for new year.
I am able to bring up disc utility in the boot up and tried verify disc, said the drive has errors and needs to be repaired. Clicked repaired and it went for about 2 minutes before it had errors and said backup and erase the drive.
Not sure if the drive is damaged (just read through my own post and obviously it is just don't know if it is recoverable), it still shows up if I use option on the boot up and can see it easily in disc utility.
So my questions are is there firstly an easy option? I have partitioned my external hdd, on one partition is snow leopard install and on the other is leopard install disc one so I'm not sure if I can do something that way.
If there doesn't seem like an easy option is there a way to back up my macbook?