I have a 15" Unibody Macbook Pro (Late 2008). I run the macbook using two bootable HDDs, one for work and one for personal use. I swap them by simply opening the latch at the back and disconnect one and plug the other.
Work HDD
350GB - Lion
Personal HDD
750GB - Snow Leopard
I was using my Mac on the Snow Leopard HDD and put it aside to sleep with lid closed. By mistake I forgot that the laptop was on Sleep not Shutdown and I opened the back and changed the HDD to the one of work.
When I opened the lid of my mac to turn it on I discovered that I forgot to make a shut down and forced into shutdown by pressing the power button. Since then, the Work HDD won't boot up a "no entry" sign appears while the other personal HDD works fine.
I have connected the Work HDD via a Sata to USB enclosure to try and recover the files but it won't appear on finder. On Disk Utility it shows up.
I know I made a big mistake and I take all the fault for that but I would appreciate your help. I wouldn't mind reinstalling the OS, the most important is to recover the data inside.
Work HDD
350GB - Lion
Personal HDD
750GB - Snow Leopard
I was using my Mac on the Snow Leopard HDD and put it aside to sleep with lid closed. By mistake I forgot that the laptop was on Sleep not Shutdown and I opened the back and changed the HDD to the one of work.
When I opened the lid of my mac to turn it on I discovered that I forgot to make a shut down and forced into shutdown by pressing the power button. Since then, the Work HDD won't boot up a "no entry" sign appears while the other personal HDD works fine.
I have connected the Work HDD via a Sata to USB enclosure to try and recover the files but it won't appear on finder. On Disk Utility it shows up.
I know I made a big mistake and I take all the fault for that but I would appreciate your help. I wouldn't mind reinstalling the OS, the most important is to recover the data inside.