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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Operating System
From 10.6.8 to Mavericks with a disk-that-needs-to-be-repaired?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1557405" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>^^^ or if you're going to upgrade to 10.9...</p><p></p><p>Am with chscag, once a drive starts needing repairs, I don't trust them any longer.</p><p></p><p>Get 2 drives - one to make a backup - one to replace the existing drive and get a 8 GB thumb drive.</p><p></p><p>Make a backup</p><p>Download Mavericks - don't install it - create a bootable installer on the thumb drive - plenty of tutorials via google.</p><p>Boot the machine to the thumb drive.</p><p>Head into Disk Utility and see if it will repair the drive</p><p>If it does, exit out of it back into OS X and create another backup</p><p>Replace the internal drive with the new one</p><p>Boot to the thumb drive, partition/format the drive and install Mavericks</p><p>Restore from the backup</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1557405, member: 24160"] ^^^ or if you're going to upgrade to 10.9... Am with chscag, once a drive starts needing repairs, I don't trust them any longer. Get 2 drives - one to make a backup - one to replace the existing drive and get a 8 GB thumb drive. Make a backup Download Mavericks - don't install it - create a bootable installer on the thumb drive - plenty of tutorials via google. Boot the machine to the thumb drive. Head into Disk Utility and see if it will repair the drive If it does, exit out of it back into OS X and create another backup Replace the internal drive with the new one Boot to the thumb drive, partition/format the drive and install Mavericks Restore from the backup [/QUOTE]
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