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<blockquote data-quote="jcroberts111" data-source="post: 1716099" data-attributes="member: 377140">Hi, I'm hoping someone can help with a hard drive/boot problem. I am running a Macbook Pro 13&quot; i5 2011 and have run into some problems. Last week my internal Hard Drive started making a ticking noise when accessing files, indicating it could be failing. So I tried backing up important files to another Mac using Target Disk Mode over Thunderbolt. As I was about to copy the files over, the Macbook's Macintosh HD disappeared from Finder on the other Mac. I then tried plugging the Macbook into another computer via Target Disk Mode, and the MacHD was still not showing up. However, my Windows Bootcamp partition was still there and is operating fine... so obviously the physical spinning HD is OK for now.When I started up the Mac in Recovery Mode Disk Utility, the MacHD was replaced by a greyed out disk called 'Untitled'. I think here is where I made a mistake: I thought maybe the disk somehow became unmounted, so I clicked 'Mount/Unmount.' That didn't help &amp; the MacHD still didn't show up in target disk mode on the other Mac. Currently, Mac OSX does not boot at all. What would you suggest to recover the data from Macintosh HD partition?Sorry this is a complex issue - I so appreciate any advice or tips you have. Thank youJesse</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jcroberts111, post: 1716099, member: 377140"] Hi, I'm hoping someone can help with a hard drive/boot problem. I am running a Macbook Pro 13" i5 2011 and have run into some problems. Last week my internal Hard Drive started making a ticking noise when accessing files, indicating it could be failing. So I tried backing up important files to another Mac using Target Disk Mode over Thunderbolt. As I was about to copy the files over, the Macbook's Macintosh HD [U]disappeared [/U]from Finder on the other Mac. I then tried plugging the Macbook into [I]another [/I] computer via Target Disk Mode, and the MacHD was still not showing up. However, my Windows Bootcamp partition was still there and is operating fine... so [U]obviously [/U]the physical spinning HD is OK for now. When I started up the Mac in Recovery Mode Disk Utility, the MacHD was replaced by a [I]greyed out [/I] disk called 'Untitled'. I think here is where I made a mistake: I thought maybe the disk somehow became unmounted, so I clicked 'Mount/Unmount.' That didn't help & the MacHD still didn't show up in target disk mode on the other Mac. Currently, Mac OSX does not boot at all. What would you suggest to recover the data from Macintosh HD partition? Sorry this is a complex issue - I so appreciate any advice or tips you have. Thank you Jesse [/QUOTE]

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