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HDD-SDD setup.. HDD failed with home folder on it

Muscle Master

Muscle Master

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Oct 15, 2010
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So my hdd failed with some music.. my backups and my home folder. So my SDD won't into OSX !!! ughh!! so I used the install CD and verify,repaired, and did the permissions thing.. still no dice

Can I fix this or I have to clean install
 
First thing to do is see if you can boot into safe mode. Also, what method did you use to put your home folder on the hard drive. There are a few different ways. Depending on how you did it, you may still be able to get into the root account.
 
Dalton63841 said:
First thing to do is see if you can boot into safe mode. Also, what method did you use to put your home folder on the hard drive. There are a few different ways. Depending on how you did it, you may still be able to get into the root account.
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Trying the safe boot now

And I did it tha normal way.. from the advance menu in accounts
 
Muscle Master said:
Trying the safe boot now

And I did it tha normal way.. from the advance menu in accounts
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Yikes, sorry, I meant single user mode. Command-S at startup


In that case Only your user account was tied to that drive. If you can get into single user mode, type:
Code: 
sudo passwd root

give it a password, and then the root account will be enabled. Boot up and log into root, make yourself a new account. Then log in to it.

P.S. Root is not something you want to keep easily accessible. After you are finished you can open terminal and type:
Code: 
dsenableroot -d
 
Dalton63841 said:
Yikes, sorry, I meant single user mode. Command-S at startup


In that case Only your user account was tied to that drive. If you can get into single user mode, type:
Code: 
sudo passwd root

give it a password, and then the root account will be enabled. Boot up and log into root, make yourself a new account. Then log in to it.

P.S. Root is not something you want to keep easily accessible. After you are finished you can open terminal and type:
Code: 
dsenableroot -d
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how to make a new account though?
 
Muscle Master said:
anyone got any ideas?
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My instincts say to try Disk Warrior, I don't really know how much help it will provide you, but at this point its worth a shot.

If you can get into Terminal (while booting from CD) try the command umount, that is to unmount disk

Also try to fsck: /sbin/fsck_hfs -y /dev/rdisk1s0 (replace 1 with disk you are trying to fsck, if its a secondary disk then most likely it is 1, usually startup/OS disk is 0, and accompanying disks are 1,2,etc.., '0' is the partition number)
^ not entirely sure though if this can be run from bootcd or not, but if you can get into singl euser mode I know it does. It may do the trick, and you may want to try that before disk warrior.
 
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