Ok, 13 hours transfer of TC backup to MBP completed successfully. Thanks for help with this those who did.
Regards Pete > On 11 Apr 2014, at 10:37 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronnie et al. I had a look first hand at my sons MBP this eve (having > FIFO'd back home) and went through the steps you indicated Ronni. The > "verify" step showed that the disc was verified OK but was unable to repair. > So did verify step which indicated a problem and so was asked to Repair disk. > DU progressed through that and then in red text said "Error cannot be > repaired. Erase the disk and restore data". So ultimately was able to Erase > disk after twice being told "cannot open disk". Then reinstalled OSX > successfully. > > Now in the process of transferring data back from Time Machine backup - 13 > hours it says ~200GB. > > Fingers crossed it completes successfully. > > Will have one happy son if it does - how would school holidays be without > being able to play Minecraft! > > He thought for a moment his HDD was failed and he'd get an SSD out of it! > Cheeky fella. > > Just a question, I have two surplus black Macbooks, one with a 128GB SSD and > the other with a 750GB HDD with the drives no more than 2 year old. Is it > practical to shift either of these drives (Erased and reformatted of course) > into any of the 2012+ MBP if I were to have an HDD failure in any of the 3 > MBP's in the house? > > Regards > > > Pete > >> On 10 Apr 2014, at 10:07 pm, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> What version of Mavericks?...Had your son installed Mavericks 10.9.2 update? >> If so it sounds like it might not have completed the update successfully. >> >> Can he bootup in Safe Mode? >> 1. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. >> If this doesn't help, then: >> >> 2. Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press >> and hold down the >> COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. >> Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down >> the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. >> Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button. >> >> 3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility >> from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows. >> >> When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select >> your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side >> list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status >> of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is >> failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB >> drives.) >> >> If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the >> left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then >> click on the Repair Disk button. >> If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until >> no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair >> Permissions button. >> Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main >> menu. >> Select Restart from the Apple menu. >> >> 4. Reinstall Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall >> Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button. >> >> After reinstalling Mavericks install the OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update >> (Combo). >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> Sent from Ronni's iPad4 >> >> >>> On 10 Apr 2014, at 8:19 pm, Peter Crisp <petercr...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> My sons MBP (2012 Mavericks) has decided tonight it wont boot up. When >>> starting it, the Apple logo comes up with the grey screen and the >>> circulating little bar thing on regular start up. The difference is there >>> is a progress bar at the bottom centre of screen which slowly progresses >>> and it gets right to the end (100%) whereupon the hard disc shuts down and >>> screen goes black. Repeating the process results in the same again. >>> >>> We have Time Machine back up so its recoverable in that sense but I wonder >>> if this is a hard disc failure or an OSX error that needs the OSX >>> rebuilding. >>> >>> About to do some Apple Support browsing but I thought I'd get this question >>> out to see if any tips on what next? >>> >>> Please advise if any tips. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> >>> Pete >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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