Here's the situation.
I have an iMac 27" which I've had for about 3 years. A week ago OSX started running really slowly. Soon after that I was unable to boot into OSX. I have a Windows partition which I booted into, and was able to access the OSX partition using Macdrive. I managed to copy MOST of my files off to an external drive (yes, stupidly I don't keep backups).
I shut down the computer for the night thinking I could copy the rest the following day but when I turned the computer on I could no longer boot to Windows. Using disk target mode I can access the Boot Camp partition but not the OSX one. I've tried repairing the disk through disk utility and it tells me it can't be repaired and needs to be formatted. I used the fsck on startup previously to check the disk and received this error:
disk0s2: I/O error.
Invalid node structure
Through Disk Target mode I've also tried using Diskwarrior which won't read it, and Data Rescue, which can't seem to access that partition either.
I just have a few files that I really need to get off the hard disc - is there ANYthing I can do before I format this drive?
thanks
I have an iMac 27" which I've had for about 3 years. A week ago OSX started running really slowly. Soon after that I was unable to boot into OSX. I have a Windows partition which I booted into, and was able to access the OSX partition using Macdrive. I managed to copy MOST of my files off to an external drive (yes, stupidly I don't keep backups).
I shut down the computer for the night thinking I could copy the rest the following day but when I turned the computer on I could no longer boot to Windows. Using disk target mode I can access the Boot Camp partition but not the OSX one. I've tried repairing the disk through disk utility and it tells me it can't be repaired and needs to be formatted. I used the fsck on startup previously to check the disk and received this error:
disk0s2: I/O error.
Invalid node structure
Through Disk Target mode I've also tried using Diskwarrior which won't read it, and Data Rescue, which can't seem to access that partition either.
I just have a few files that I really need to get off the hard disc - is there ANYthing I can do before I format this drive?
thanks