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Help! I killed moms iMac!

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Imski

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Jan 27, 2010
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Hi,

i downloaded and installed Lion and afterwards an error like this appeared:

Installation not complete.

Harddisk failure.

Couldnt repair the harddisk.


Thats it!

The iMac ist approx 2 years old and not in steady use.

I am planning to give Techtool Pro a try but i have to buy a firewire cable first.

Any other advice???

Greets and Merry X-Mas

Imski
 
elpmas said:
Did you try just to start it up?
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You mean to do a fresh install?

No i havent tried this yet. I´d like to keep her data alive. But if there is no such option i will try to do a reinstall.

At the moment i am running the "Hardware Test", maybe it says something useful.
 
Its alive again!!

I have no clue what went wrong there.

I just repaired the rights on the harddisk with the drive utilities and that seemed to help!

Minutes ago the apple ago was flickering and switching with an error symbol and a questionmark and nothing worked but now it runs smoothly again. What the heck?

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old-wiz said:
What about the backup? You did run a backup before you tried to upgrade didn't you?
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Oh dear....
 
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