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WTF! my startup HD is gone!!! Help please

djrod

djrod

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My Mac's dock crashed and I had to power off and on with the back button, but now mi snow leopard HD is gone, I can only boot from bootcamp, if I insert the SL install DVD the SL HD is there, but I can not do anything, nor check or repair it! How can I fix this???
 
r.j.s

r.j.s

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djrod said:
Thx but it doesn't work, disk utility says the disk has no format :confused:, and the only thing it can do is to create new partitions :(
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That doesn't sound good, the disk might be done for ... do you have a backup of the important stuff?
 
djrod

djrod

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r.j.s said:
That doesn't sound good, the disk might be done for ... do you have a backup of the important stuff?
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Restoring form time machine...the HD that is missing is a brand new SSD, applications on SSD, User on the HD, i was wondering how would be restoring from time machine in a configuration like this but I was expecting to never have to do it, but here I am, testing it by myself :mad:
 
r.j.s

r.j.s

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djrod said:
Restoring form time machine...the HD that is missing is a brand new SSD, applications on SSD, User on the HD, i was wondering how would be restoring from time machine in a configuration like this but I was expecting to never have to do it, but here I am, testing it by myself :mad:
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Let us know how it goes ...
 
djrod

djrod

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r.j.s said:
Let us know how it goes ...
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Everything is up and running again.

Time machine is the best Mac feature ever!

By the way I think my Mac went bad because of bootcamp, windows7 hanged up a lot of times and since then my Mac seemed to be weird, I thought it was my imagination but...
 
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