Ahh...I had the exact same problem with my iMac. I ran verify disk, and
it said it was just fine. But it wouldn't let me erase it, and the
computer wouldn't do anything but default to the disk utility. I could
see the other partition on disk utility, but I didn't know what it was
for. Fortunately, I am a fanatic about backing stuff up, so I put in a
new hard drive and restored the computer that way. Now I know it was
probably booting into the wrong partition. Learned something new. Thanks
On 7/24/17 5:19 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
On Jul 24, 2017, at 4:52 PM, tom holloman <chuba...@gmail.com
<mailto:chuba...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Aloha all
Hopefully someone has ideas on this.
A friend has a two year old MacBook Pro that has obtained a weird
virus. It was updated but now shows the incorrect iOS number and has
duplicated all photos.
She had nortons on it but when I looked it showed last update 1999.
Hard drive shows only 3GB available but she only had about 50 GB on it.
Installed my disk warrior and tried to run it and it corrupted the
USB it was on!
Tried to download bitdefender but got message the Os didn't support it.
Any ideas other than wiping clean and losing all her quick books dats?
Mahalo
Tom
Here’s an unlikely scenario that darn near drove me crazy a while back
and sounds similar. It’s not likely to be the same problem.
I was helping a friend who had symptoms similar to those you describe
after installing a MacOS upgrade. It turned out he had two boot
partitions on his hard drive and had forgotten about one. After the
upgrade, the Mac booted into the wrong partition. I discovered this by
holding down the option key after restarting. When you do this, it
will show all the boot partitions available and you can choose the one
you want.
L^2
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Lee Larson
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science
requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require
scholarship. — Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough for Love (1973)
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