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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1804500" data-attributes="member: 396914">I don't even see the internal drive in that image. What I see is data about the stick and a &quot;disk3&quot; with a &quot;Base System.&quot; This link: <a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/22941/what-is-the-mac-os-x-base-system-disk-image-on-my-2011-macbook-air" target="_blank">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/22941/what-is-the-mac-os-x-base-system-disk-image-on-my-2011-macbook-air</a>discusses what that is. Basically, it is a disk image mounted during the installation process and probably initiated from the stick as a virtual drive. So, based on what you posted and what it shows, the internal drive is not there. And that is consistent with it being dead. It's not even showing up as a device at all. The hardware should be named &quot;APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 Media&quot; as you saw it earlier in your post, but it's NOT there, so it's not alive to the booted system. At this point, even if you did a restore, it isn't going to be touching the internal drive because it is not there.Given that your log shows it was there for a little while (5 seconds or so), I would say the drive is on it's last legs and is deeply failing or maybe even totally failed. I think your only hope to recover it is to remove it from the Mac and see if it can be mounted on some other Mac as an external drive. And if you can, do the copy of the critical data as quickly as you can because that drive is nearly dead and won't last long.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1804500, member: 396914"] I don't even see the internal drive in that image. What I see is data about the stick and a "disk3" with a "Base System." This link: [url]https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/22941/what-is-the-mac-os-x-base-system-disk-image-on-my-2011-macbook-air[/url] discusses what that is. Basically, it is a disk image mounted during the installation process and probably initiated from the stick as a virtual drive. So, based on what you posted and what it shows, the internal drive is not there. And that is consistent with it being dead. It's not even showing up as a device at all. The hardware should be named "APPLE HDD HTS545050A7E362 Media" as you saw it earlier in your post, but it's NOT there, so it's not alive to the booted system. At this point, even if you did a restore, it isn't going to be touching the internal drive because it is not there. Given that your log shows it was there for a little while (5 seconds or so), I would say the drive is on it's last legs and is deeply failing or maybe even totally failed. I think your only hope to recover it is to remove it from the Mac and see if it can be mounted on some other Mac as an external drive. And if you can, do the copy of the critical data as quickly as you can because that drive is nearly dead and won't last long. [/QUOTE]

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