I had windows installed in a partition on my iMac but removed it and left the partition there. Now I've just come home to find my iMac was shutt off ( I always sleep it) and when I boot it up it auto loads the missing windows OS and if I hold the option key the mac OS is nowhere to be seen please help
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That doesn't seemto do Anything it still goes straight to the missing OS screen from the windows partition
I removed windows aroud a week ago and have been using the computer normallly since then... I'll try that
Okay so I think that the OS X partition became unmounted somehow.. When I try to run first aid and verify it it fails and says..
**/dev/disc0s2
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block 000000
Error: filesystem verify or repair failed
**/dev/disc0s2
Invalid BS_jmpBoot in boot block 000000
Error: filesystem verify or repair failed
r.j.s
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I did both... And it says the same thing... And I know I'm just nervous as he'll right now so I'm sorry
Tbh I bought an external hardrive today to back it up and I came home to this... Is there anyway to back up from here ?
spinnerlys
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Install OS X on an external hard drive (free volume or partition is needed).
Use that to boot from, and see if you can see your internal Mac OS X volume.
If not there are several applications to help you.
DataRescue II for example helped me quite a lot in the past 4 years with unrecognizable volumes. It restores the files on such voulmes and copies them wherever you want to.
Use that to boot from, and see if you can see your internal Mac OS X volume.
If not there are several applications to help you.
DataRescue II for example helped me quite a lot in the past 4 years with unrecognizable volumes. It restores the files on such voulmes and copies them wherever you want to.