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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1915568" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Good deal. Was just wondering if there was a special reason for this setup.</p><p></p><p>To be honest I'm not sure. That command line interface can be very powerful...and can sometimes change the way the computer operates at a very deep level. To reverse things you need to know what was done...and then reverse it.</p><p></p><p>Of course if nothing was done incorrectly via the command line...then maybe a Snow Leopard reinstall has a good chance to fix things.</p><p></p><p>When you booted the computer with your Snow Leopard disk...and used Disk Utility...did you see two separate partitions (one for Snow Leopard & one for Windows)?</p><p></p><p>If so great...you of course would to reinstall Snow Leopard into the current macOS partition. Question is...does this Snow Leopard partition have anything in it that you don't want to lose? If a Snow Leopard reinstall was done...it may wipe out everything in the current Snow Leopard partition.</p><p></p><p>Another idea to consider...is booting the computer from an external drive with the macOS installed on it. If this was done then the 2 partitions from the internal drive should simply show up on the desktop as data disks (hopefully if they're readable). Then you'd have access to them to copy anything important before any OS reinstall attempts.</p><p></p><p>You could also run Disk Repair from Disk Utility (from the external drive)...on the internal drive...and see if this helps.</p><p></p><p>Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1915568, member: 56379"] Good deal. Was just wondering if there was a special reason for this setup. To be honest I'm not sure. That command line interface can be very powerful...and can sometimes change the way the computer operates at a very deep level. To reverse things you need to know what was done...and then reverse it. Of course if nothing was done incorrectly via the command line...then maybe a Snow Leopard reinstall has a good chance to fix things. When you booted the computer with your Snow Leopard disk...and used Disk Utility...did you see two separate partitions (one for Snow Leopard & one for Windows)? If so great...you of course would to reinstall Snow Leopard into the current macOS partition. Question is...does this Snow Leopard partition have anything in it that you don't want to lose? If a Snow Leopard reinstall was done...it may wipe out everything in the current Snow Leopard partition. Another idea to consider...is booting the computer from an external drive with the macOS installed on it. If this was done then the 2 partitions from the internal drive should simply show up on the desktop as data disks (hopefully if they're readable). Then you'd have access to them to copy anything important before any OS reinstall attempts. You could also run Disk Repair from Disk Utility (from the external drive)...on the internal drive...and see if this helps. Nick [/QUOTE]
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