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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
crashed and won't restart
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<blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 523723" data-attributes="member: 36256"><p>As someone who experienced this, oh, last month <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />, let me take a stab at it, Geeky1.</p><p>What I would try first is connecting to another "helper" Mac by direct Firewire: Boot up your helper Mac, then turn on your MacBook while holding down T, until a big Firewire icon shows up and bounces around your screen. Then connect your computer to that other Mac with a firewire cable. Your helper Mac will (you hope) find your MacBook disk and display it as an icon on the helper Mac's desktop. You will be able (you hope) to access your MacBook drive and pull files off to the helper Mac.</p><p>After (if) you get your files off your MacBook, "eject" your MacBook from the helper Mac and turn off your MacBook.</p><p>Now if Geeky1 has something else to try, go for it.</p><p>Some people (including the Apple site) will tell you to try to repair this or that or reset this or that with Disk Utilities or whatever. I just know that when my HD started clicking, Disk Utilities made it worse, and I lost <strong>everything</strong> from my drive. It was a brand-new HD and I hadn't backed up. I tried several avenues of data recovery and the HD was as dead as a hockey puck.</p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neo, post: 523723, member: 36256"] As someone who experienced this, oh, last month :(, let me take a stab at it, Geeky1. What I would try first is connecting to another "helper" Mac by direct Firewire: Boot up your helper Mac, then turn on your MacBook while holding down T, until a big Firewire icon shows up and bounces around your screen. Then connect your computer to that other Mac with a firewire cable. Your helper Mac will (you hope) find your MacBook disk and display it as an icon on the helper Mac's desktop. You will be able (you hope) to access your MacBook drive and pull files off to the helper Mac. After (if) you get your files off your MacBook, "eject" your MacBook from the helper Mac and turn off your MacBook. Now if Geeky1 has something else to try, go for it. Some people (including the Apple site) will tell you to try to repair this or that or reset this or that with Disk Utilities or whatever. I just know that when my HD started clicking, Disk Utilities made it worse, and I lost [B]everything[/B] from my drive. It was a brand-new HD and I hadn't backed up. I tried several avenues of data recovery and the HD was as dead as a hockey puck. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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